This great testament to the horrors of slavery opens with a haunting. The very best ghost stories get you to suspend your disbelief because whatever the nature of their manifestation the rationale for that ghost existing is entirely convincing: here are some of them.
Suddenly, there are a lot of verbs that can only be employed with the greatest of caution.
The minute your ghost talks about whisking from one place to the next, or floating along a pavement, they sound like Casper. It’s surprisingly hard not to make a narrator-ghost appear twee. That created other problems, though – what could my ghost do? Could she move objects, pass through walls? In the case of Platform Seven, I answered that question right at the start by having the whole novel narrated by a ghost – that of a young woman who has died on Peterborough railway station and finds herself trapped there until the mystery of her death is solved.
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