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Michael Newton


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Michael Newton has taught at University College London, Princeton University, and Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design, and now works at Leiden University. He is the author of Savage Girls and Wild Boys: A History of Feral Children, Age of Assassins: A History of Conspiracy and Political Violence, 1865-1981, and a book on Kind Hearts and Coronets for the BFI Film Classics series. He has edited Edmund Gosse's Father and Son for Oxford World's Classics, and The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories and Conrad's The Secret Agent for Penguin. He has written and reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement, London Review of Books, the New Statesman, and The Gu ...more

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“That is because the ghost story is not about guessing an ending, it’s about dreading its inevitable arrival.”
― Michael Newton, The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories, from Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce
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“The room itself might have been full of secrets. They seemed to be piling themselves up, as evening fell, like the layers and layers of velvet shadow dropping from the low ceiling, the rows of books, the smoke-blurred sculpture of the hearth.”
― Michael Newton, The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories, from Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce
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“It struck my eye, the first time I went to Brentwood, like a melancholy comment upon a life that was over. A door that led to nothing – closed once, perhaps, with anxious care, bolted and guarded, now void of any meaning.”
― Michael Newton, The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories, from Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce
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