Article: Three graves: not fare well, but fare forward, voyagers. (reflections on influence of authors Jack London, Emily Dickinson and T.S. Eliot)

Some little children are ghouls. Some, of course, run and hide when they see a blood-dripping Halloween mask, or they cringe and lean toward their mothers when Dickens' s "Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come" beckons Scrooge to look at his own grave. But some run to the grave to look. They wrap cheesecloth around themselves and limp toward their little sisters in amateurish imitation of Boris Karloff, or secrete away, for evening delectation, the latest edition of "Horror Comics." They are ghouls. Not seriously deranged; they simply find entertainment in the bizarre. There are many of us: witness the millionaire status of Stephen King. And lest the above example of the Mummy ...

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