Quotes from Roger Clarke

There are three things that constantly mediate our belief in ghosts – religion, the media and social status. Since these are things that change, our ghosts have changed in accordance with them.

We love ghost stories not just because they explain what happens at the end of our lives but because they take us to the beginning, and we reconnect to our childhood, pleasurably. The deliciousness of mediated fear is a great attraction, one that many do not want to grow out of.

By the pond, an old yew tree had grown against a millstone, like a finger swelling round a wedding ring.

I kept looking at the door. It seemed about to open, all the time. So much of the ghost story is the anticipation.