Kate Scarth

And one thing I loved about, I think Stephen King is so brilliant, but also it just felt like the kind of story that Ella Montgomery could have written.

She did write some ghost stories, but it just feels like, you know, it's all part of this Atlantic, Northeastern world.

a focus on women and the past kind of always being with us.

So ghosts in different forms is, I think, what it all boils down to.

Yes.

But the investigators are, they're kind of haunted, right, by these ghosts because they

Like in Ghost in the Throat, like she just wants to learn everything she can about this 18th century poet.

So is haunted by her and is trying to give voice to this ghost, the ghost in the throat.

So yeah, I think there are connections there.

One book that I really liked was, is it J. Courtney Sullivan, The Cliffs?

Yes, it is.

And I was reading it and I just thought, oh my goodness, like this book has so many parallels to Montgomery like that focus on women's stories and the focus on one particular place like the area on the top of the cliff.

And there's no direct reference to Montgomery or Anna Green Gables, but I Googled it after.

And sure enough, she had written the introduction to a recent Penguin edition of Anna Green Gables.

So that was that was kind of fun.

I guess that was me being the investigator, but it just seemed like, oh, my goodness, there's there's felt like a lot of influence there.

It's a great story.

I really recommend it.

And it's not horror.

I mean, there's a ghost and there's some dark things, but nothing that wouldn't have happened in kind of a rural community in the 20th century.