Some ghoulish entertainment in preparation for Halloween:
• Elizabeth Bowen’s “The Demon Lover.” Set during the Blitz, the story is one of the spooky stories recommended by James Hynes which I pointed to yesterday and can be found in the excellent Norton Book of Ghost Stories , edited by Brad Leithauser. Very compressed, gorgeous & hair-raising — print it out and read in a crowded place.
• The old Scottish ballad the story is based on.
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
