Be afraid!
Here’s my question: Can serious fiction entertain spirits and ghosts? Can a random dead person send messages to the living? After the Civil War I imagine there were many mourning relatives hoping for just such messages. But when a writer adds supernatural occurrences does the book become fantasy? When does believability suffer?
“Mother, can you feel me?”
“Oh, there you are!”
I know people who claim to have communicated with the dead. Were they kidding themselves? Near-death experiences are almost cliche–are they off limits in novels? I can’t imagine my characters talking to ghosts, but then who knows. Do you believe in ghosts? Spirits? The supernatural?
http://history1800s.about.com/od/entertainmentsport/ss/supernatural-19th-century.htm
