The Owl Flies at Night

Overview

This short story is an experimental parody in the modern ghost genre. It uses irony and an unreliable narrator in the tradition of Poe’s ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’. The narrator, Dr Eric Swell is an entirely fictional character and all of his views are tongue-in-cheek. The irony of his point of view becomes apparent later in the story. This is story which simply asks the question: 'What if?'. What if there were mysteries in this world which shouldn't be experimented with? Readers of a sensitive dispo

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