SuitabookThe Ghost Downstairs
Leon Garfield
- Reading
- You could read together and pause after the bargain is made, asking what each character appears to want. Then check in about the ghostly element and whether your reader would like to continue.
- Themes
- Wealth and the cost of a bargain: Mr Fast wants to be richer than other men and agrees to give up seven years at the end of his life for a fortune. The premise centres on a trade-off, but the story’s judgement of Mr Fast’s choice is not established.
- Loneliness and haunting: Mr Fast has no friends and spies on his neighbours; a little lost spectre comes to haunt him. The overview places loneliness alongside the haunting, but does not establish whether the story connects them or what the haunting means.
- Worth knowing
- The story includes a ghostly haunting and a bargain involving seven years at the end of a person’s life. These elements may be worth noting if supernatural or mortality-related themes concern your reader.