{"id":8499,"date":"2016-10-18T12:02:36","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T16:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=8499"},"modified":"2016-10-18T12:02:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T16:02:36","slug":"edwardian-ghost-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=8499","title":{"rendered":"Edwardian Ghost Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2016\/oct\/18\/ghost-stories-benson-review\">Nicholas Lezard recommends<\/a> the ghost stories of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/E-F-Benson\">EF Benson<\/a> (1867-1940).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When I reread \u201cCaterpillars\u201d, for the first time in four decades, I very quickly regretted that I had chosen to do so at night. Gatiss, in his introduction, says that it is \u201cperhaps a ghost story like no other\u201d, and he\u2019s not wrong: it\u2019s the kind of story that leaves one feeling almost unclean, checking clothes and body for vermin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/prufrock-mitterrands-mistress-audens-late-prose-and-churchill-in-south-africa\/article\/2004941\">Prufrock News<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholas Lezard recommends the ghost stories of\u00a0EF Benson (1867-1940). When I reread \u201cCaterpillars\u201d, for the first time in four decades, I very quickly regretted that I had chosen to do so at night. Gatiss, in his introduction, says that it is \u201cperhaps a ghost story like no other\u201d, and he\u2019s not wrong: it\u2019s the kind &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=8499\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Edwardian Ghost Stories<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[853,1064],"class_list":["post-8499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-ef-benson","tag-ghosts"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}