Tony Walker

It's a ghostly thing, yeah.

But then the slight grit flying the ointment is that...

The three glasses are still there with the fingerprints of the ghosts.

So the ghosts have left fingerprints.

The ghosts have been drinking whiskey in his room.

So a modern ghost story writer probably wouldn't get away with that.

But you need that for the story mechanism.

Because they have to remember, because without them, there's no evidence and actually no story.

The narrator would have woken up, found nothing and dismissed the whole thing as a dream.

So it's the glasses that send to Scotland Yard and it's Scotland Yard's twist.

Oh, this was 1919.

Otherwise, it's just like, well, that's a weird thing.

So the car goes...

makes it more ghostly.

So you could say that that's a flaw.

But there's actually a long tradition in ghost folklore, the revenant who leaves behind a single physical trace.

Think about the handprint burned into the church door.

And I think it's Bungay in Suffolk, not far from this story, just a bit further down the coast, where the black dog appeared at Christmas and the great shook and scratched the door.

And the scratches are still visible in the door.

So this idea that, hey,