The short story collection doesn’t just touch on cultural themes Twain would have appreciated, it deals in the sort of wordplay and conscious undermining of literary formats he popularized.

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Welcome to Haunted Wirral, a feature series written by world-famous psychic researcher, Tom Slemen for the Globe.

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