A revelation. A new Blackwood ghost story for me. One featuring a loving now upstanding narrator whose backstory’s extra-marital regrets are held in tangible letters, letters that a poignantly reluctant blackmailer holds and faces the narrator with, and the sad blackmailer is desperate enough to force money out of the narrator. The plural of the title has many ramifications of who is blackmailing whom? And the ghostly ending is so expected it was unexpected. Or vice versa.
Blackwood lost in a black wood of guilt?
My previous reviews of Blackwood: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2022/12/13/the-listener-algernon-blackwood/ and https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2015/01/19/ancient-sorceries-and-other-chilling-tales-by-algernon-blackwood/
The anthology context of above review: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2022/12/16/twentieth-century-ghost-stories/
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