Tony Walker
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Podcast Appearances
And you're telling a straight story, often with some...
In this case, horrific things.
And you do lots of asides that make it absurd.
Do you see what I'm saying?
So now I wanted to talk about a little bit of misdirection.
We talked about him being a spy.
And the misdirection in this case is the nature of the story.
So we're reading the story and we're going through and we're thinking, this is a crime story.
Halfway through.
33% of the way through, half of it, it's a crime story.
When there's nothing supernatural about this.
Four-fifths of the way through, it's a crime story.
Only at the very end, the last sentence or two, I think it's a penultimate sentence, do we get the fact it's a ghost story.
Boom.
We've been completely misdirected.
Now think about this.
You're listening to this on the Classic Ghost Stories podcast.
You're set up for it.
If you read it in like I got it from an anthology of ghost stories, I'm set up to know it's a ghost story.
But imagine you're listening to A.J.