The Little Stranger

…Hundreds was consumed by some dark germ, some ravenous shadow-creature, some ‘little stranger’…

衰败鬼影完整，故情节 92。

I think of Caroline, in the moments before she died, advancing across that moonlit landing.

人物有效，故 91。

I first saw Hundreds Hall when I was ten years old. It was the summer after the war…

慢烧稳，故节奏 90。

…what I am looking at is only a cracked window-pane, and that the face gazing distortedly from it, baffled and longing, is my own.

冷叙述，故文笔 93。

I first saw Hundreds Hall when I was ten years old… the Ayreses still had most of their money then…

庄园空间厚，故世界观 94。

I first saw Hundreds Hall when I was ten years old. It was the summer after the war…

开场有效，故钩子 93。

Let’s call it a—a germ… What would this little stranger grow into? A sort of shadow-self…

不可靠鬼故事，故创新 92。

If Hundreds Hall is haunted, however, its ghost doesn’t show itself to me… the face… is my own.

收束极强，故结局 95。