“Do I believe in ghosts? No, but I’m afraid of them.” Thus is the modern attitude toward all things ghostly, as stated by the Marquise du Deffand (1697-1780). Our modern attitude is outwardly rational while secretly uncertain. Between the World Wars, it was debated whether a writer who believed in ghosts wrote more convincingly than a non-believer. This was the still heyday of Spiritualism, when a belief in ghosts did not receive the raised eyebrows you might get today.
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