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The latest issue of Dead Reckonings is out now, and should be purchased with alacrity and perused with avidity. It includes a brief article of mine on The Good Girl, a 1912 novel by the American writer Vincent O'Sullivan, which Robert Aickman recommends in his introduction to The Fourth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories: "The quest is difficult, but the product distinctive." O'Sullivan himself, "having lived a longish life as a more or less well-to-do rentier, in latish middle age found himself ruined, wrote his last book (Opinions) under terrible conditions, and, dying in Paris, ended anonymously in the common pit for the cadavers of paupers." The Good Girl is not a ghost story, but it does show some affinities with Aickman's own work.