Captain Dalgety Returns: A Ghost Story for Christmas

Laurence Whistler

Boo – “Reading a ghost story on Christmas Eve was once as much a part of traditional Christmas celebrations as turkey, eggnog, and Santa Claus.” As a Christmas gift this year, Gordon and Gale Meyer presented Robert Charles and me with this pocket-sized ghost tale, part of the “Haunted Bookshelf” series from Biblioasis. (The series also is known affectionately as “Seth’s Christmas Ghost Stories" because Seth’s artwork adorns each book.) This is my second plunge into the series – I read Edith Wharton’s “Afterward” a while back. Whistler’s tale is equally engaging as Wharton’s, and it’s great to see this near-forgotten tradition kept alive and kicking … unlike some of the characters in the stories.