Unquiet Graves (Bookworm. Oxford Chinese-English Parallel Reader) (Bookworm. Oxford Chinese-English Parallel Reader)

Author: James
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Publish Date: 1998-07-01
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People who have died are not always quietly lying in their graves. Sometimes, they still have unfinished business in this world or seek revenge for the wrongs they suffered. Perhaps they too have committed evil in their lives, and even in death, they cannot find peace, so they must return to bring trouble and fear to the living.
In these five stories, the dead may appear at any time in the most bizarre ways—arriving at an Oxford college, where Mr. Williams is interestedly looking at an ancient painting; or arriving at a small inn where young Mr. Thompson is on vacation. The lights in Mr. Edward Dunning’s room have gone out. He reaches out for matches, but what does his hand touch in the darkness? The wife and stepson of Sir Bowles want to ask a question, but only Sir Bowles knows the answer. How do you ask a question of a dead person lying in a grave?
When Professor Parkins blows a very old whistle he found, is it only the wind that answers, or is there something else? Something you can’t see or hear, but that you can hardly imagine how terrifying it could be…