Miss James and her friend Marchbank's, along with a young policeman they meet on their journey, are walking home through the snow when they experience the God's return, an event that impacts them all in profound ways.
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It's a magnificent story. I read it last month in the British Library anthology Haunters at the Hearth: Eerie Tales for Christmas. I reviewed it here: https://jayrothermel.substack.com/p/haunters-at-the-hearth-eerie-tales
ReplyDeleteThe anthology includes an A.M. Burrage story "Auberon Road" with a similar Machenean liminal neighborhood theme. The Lawrence story Is the stronger.