Bookworm_The Unquiet Graves

Author: (English) James, translated by Song Jie
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Publish Date: 2002-08-01
Features: The dead are not always quiet in their graves. Sometimes they still have unfinished business in this world or want to take revenge for the wrongs they suffered; perhaps they have committed evil in life, and even in death, they cannot rest in peace, so they must return to bring trouble and fear to the living. In these five stories, the deceased may arrive in strange ways at any time—either at an Oxford college where Mr. Williams is interested in watching an old painting, or at a small inn where young Mr. Thomson is on vacation. In Mr. Edward Dunning's room, the light goes out, and he reaches for a match, but what does his hand touch in the darkness? The wife and stepson of Sir Bowles want to ask a question, but only Bowles knows the answer. How do you ask a question of a dead person lying in a grave? When Professor Perkins blows an old whistle he found, is it only the wind that answers, or is there something else? Something you can't see or hear, yet it's hard to imagine how terrifying it could be...