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– ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS – First and foremost I have to thank Kim Kremer of Notting Hill Editions for suggesting this book and for encouraging me to edit it. I’d also like to thank Lucy Walker of Britten Pears Arts for involving me in her discovery day on Benjamin Britten and Henry James’s takes on The Turn of the Screw, and for some stimulating conversations on the subject of ghost stories. Lastly I’d like to thank my late mother; her legacy has in many ways been difficult and complicated, but she was also an inspired storyteller. I’m pretty sure telling stories helped her deal with her own internal spectres, and perhaps unwittingly she also pointed the way to me to deal with mine. That certainly was no wrong turning. – PERMISSIONS – ‘Black Dog’, a short story from Pack of Cards (William Heinemann, 1986) by Penelope Lively, reproduced by kind permission of the author; two extracts from Moominpapa at Sea copyright © Tove Jansson, 1965, Moomin Characters™, and English translation copyright © 1950, Moomin Characters™, reproduced with permission of Moomin Characters™; extract from The Best of Myles copyright © 1968 by Evelyn O’Nolan, reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd and Dalkey Archive Press. 182
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– ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS – First and foremost I have to thank Kim Kremer of Notting Hill Editions for suggesting this book and for encouraging me to edit it. I’d also like to thank Lucy Walker of Britten Pears Arts for involving me in her discovery day on Benjamin Britten and Henry James’s takes on The Turn of the Screw, and for some stimulating conversations on the subject of ghost stories. Lastly I’d like to thank my late mother; her legacy has in many ways been difficult and complicated, but she was also an inspired storyteller. I’m pretty sure telling stories helped her deal with her own internal spectres, and perhaps unwittingly she also pointed the way to me to deal with mine. That certainly was no wrong turning.

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‘Black Dog’, a short story from Pack of Cards (William Heinemann, 1986) by Penelope Lively, reproduced by kind permission of the author; two extracts from Moominpapa at Sea copyright © Tove Jansson, 1965, Moomin Characters™, and English translation copyright © 1950, Moomin Characters™, reproduced with permission of Moomin Characters™; extract from The Best of Myles copyright © 1968 by Evelyn O’Nolan, reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd and Dalkey Archive Press.

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