Jack is from a lower middle-class background and is at first intimidated by the other two privately educated men, Gus and Algie. The setting is unusual – the Arctic – and the story is told largely in the first person through the journals of Jack Miller, a radio operator, who has joined two other men on a scientific trip to ‘Gruhuken’, a lonely outpost in the Arctic circle. A Ghost Story‘, has all these ingredients, and more. I like too, a sense of ambiguity about the ‘ghost’ – is there one? Or is it the imaginations of the haunted playing dark tricks on them? What makes a good ghost story? For me, it is not the appearance of the ghost, spirit or demon, but the build-up of tension, reactions by the haunted to the apparition, and evocative description of location.
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