The Service by Lauren Mooney review – A very modern ghost story | books
TeaHere, M.R. James tells us, there are five conditions that must be met for an ideal ghost story: a pretense of truth, a “pleasant terror”, no explanation of machinery, no unnecessary terror, and that the story be of the author’s (and the reader’s) “own day”. In Lauren Mooney’s first look at the novel, Danielle is