Long about Halloween my twitter pal @winnerbowzer and I had a twitter discussion about scary books. I told her about how Blackbriar scared the crap out of me. She told me that the scariest book she read as a kid was Jane-Emily by Patricia Clapp. Since @winnerbowzer has pretty good taste, I procured a copy post haste.

It’s only now that I’ve finally gotten around to reading it and hoo-boy was it fun! Jane-Emily is billed as a romance and a ghost story. Sweet!

It’s set in 1912, and nineteen-year-old Louisa is sent along with her recently-orphaned niece, nine-year-old Jane, to spend the summer with Jane’s grandmother. Louisa’s not too thrilled with this prospect because she had great plans to spend the summer mooning about with Martin, her poetry-writing beau.

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