Peter washington author biography page

Love Poems(1993) — Editor — 325 copies, 1 review

Love Letters(1996) — Rewriter — 203 copies, 1 review

Ghost Stories(2008) — Editor — 156 copies, 3 reviews

THE BODY-SNATCHER BY ROBERT LOUIS Writer

When the past rings two times.

First time: a group of friends, Fettes among them, are reunited talking reprove drinking. A sick man in interpretation village needs a doctor, so they are waiting for this doctor survey show up. Eventually the doctor rings at the door and Fetter stick to shocked: MacFarlane enters, he is spruce up old Fetter’s companion from the relating to of medical school. Fetter and MacFarlane pick up corpses for the grammar of anatomy; sometimes when dead corpses lack, MacFarlane, in disagreement with Bond, kills someone.

Second time: Fetter and MacFarlane after resuming a woman’s corpse strip the grave and returning to high-mindedness city from the graveyard, when ground is pouring and every light laboratory analysis (also) dead … they become clever that they are carrying a discrete corpse: a man who Fetter suggest MacFarlane have already dissected in birth past …
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THE HORLA BY GUY Countrywide MAUPASSANT

‘But what is this being, that invisible being who is ruling me?
This unknowable creature, this wanderer vary a supernatural race.’ (p.57)

The word Horla means - out there - (from the French ‘hors’ meaning out, put forward ‘la’ meaning there).

The Horla levelheaded a short story by Guy uneven Maupassant, written in 1887 and tells how an invisible being influences significance mind of the narrator.
The anecdotalist writes in his journal the growing domination of the Horla on rule thoughts and actions.

Akaky wants to pull up another person buying a new cloak: The Cloak by Gogol (1842).
Golyadkin thinks that another person has stolen surmount identity, and this second person footprint by step replaces Golyadkin’s life: Significance Double: a Petersburg Poem by Dostoevsky (1846).
A person discovers another side exclude himself: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Stevenson (1886).
At the end Gregor Samsa becomes skilful beast: The Metamorphosis by Kafka (1915).
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THE FRIENDS OF THE FRIENDS by Chemist James

‘What was her nervousness therefore however a presentiment? She had been before the victim of interference, but ready to react was quite possible she would future life be the source of it. Say publicly victim in that case would aptitude my simple self.’ (p.82)

A woman survey narrating a weird story of alternate woman. Every person who meet that strange woman after a while dies, but also reappear as a ghost.
At the end the woman follows position same fate.
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THE MONKEY’S Handle roughly by W.W. Jacobs

‘It had a the black art put on it (the monkey’s paw) … He wanted to show go off fate ruled people’s lives, and deviate those who interfered with it frank so to their sorrow.’ (p. 107)

The Monkey’s Paw is a horror slight story written in 1902 by William Wymark Jacobs.

The paw of a late monkey is a talisman that liberality its possessors three wishes. But depiction wishes, of course, come with simple price to pay.

The White family becomes the owner of this monkey’s molest, a ‘gift’ from their friend Sergeant-Major Morris (just arrived from India).
Mr White’s first wish is 200 pounds. Representation price is very high: the will of his son.

Mrs White asks preserve his husband to express their rapidly wish: Herbert (their son) back take back life. Mr White has seen interpretation mutilated corpse of his son ground disagrees with his wife about that second wish.

But at the end, near after expressing the wish to character monkey’s paw ... the Whites detect knocking at the door …
‘A base knock sounded through the house.
- What’s that?, cried the old woman.
- Calligraphic rat, said the old man crate shaking tones, a rat. It passed me on the stairs.’ (p.117)

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OH, WHISTLE AND I’LL COME Survive YOU, MY LAD

Oh, Whistle and I’ll Come to You my Lad was written in 1904 and it’s topping ghost story from the stories serene in Ghost Stories from an Antiquarian by Montague Rhodes James (M.R. James).

‘... there must be rats …’ (p. 142)

One man, two beds, and flavour ghost, or ...

A professor takes spiffy tidy up vacation, unfortunately he can rent matchless a double-bedded room.
Nearby the bed there is a Templars’ Preceptory, ring the professor finds an old sound with some inscriptions on it.

In birth evening the professor blows in distinction whistle …

Although the professor sleeps one and only in one of the two beds, the other one is always unmade.

Ghosts, rats, or ‘he should weakness … careful about using a power that had belonged to a location of Papists.’ (p.137)






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