But one of the personal things about FL, for me, is that I'm no better about ghosts than Nicola, and when I first found FL in the library I was absolutely gripped by the story and, of course, bedtime happened and I was still only part-way through. So I continued under the bedclothes by torchlight (I can't remember how old I must have been, but if I was still sharing a bedroom with my sister, certainly no older than ten or so) and then I got to the ghost bit, which came completely out of the blue and it was right in the middle of the night. I was too scared to go on and too scared to put the torch out, for ages. It somehow made it scarier that it was a noise, not an apparition (my only supernatural experience on my own account was also auditory, not visual, though that was many years later).
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Re: Merrick ghost
Date: 2014-08-03 10:36 am (UTC)But one of the personal things about FL, for me, is that I'm no better about ghosts than Nicola, and when I first found FL in the library I was absolutely gripped by the story and, of course, bedtime happened and I was still only part-way through. So I continued under the bedclothes by torchlight (I can't remember how old I must have been, but if I was still sharing a bedroom with my sister, certainly no older than ten or so) and then I got to the ghost bit, which came completely out of the blue and it was right in the middle of the night. I was too scared to go on and too scared to put the torch out, for ages. It somehow made it scarier that it was a noise, not an apparition (my only supernatural experience on my own account was also auditory, not visual, though that was many years later).