A Leak In The Safe

When you’re confronted with something deeply strange or obviously implausible in a book or movie or painting you know it means something. It’s a symbol, a clue. But in real life, that’s not necessarily how it works.

— Elizabeth Hand

Photograph by Bryan Birks

Ghosts are not things — I doubt if they are even people; they are feelings. They are all unaccountable essences — they are your own self sitting gravely and accusingly on your doorstep.

— John Keir Cross