"Cushi" (1952) by Christopher Woodforde

[....]It might not be expected that Rooksgate Green produces much news for the large world around it. Indeed, it seems never to have done so. It once had an important fair, but this has dwindled to a few roundabouts, swings, and stalls which still arrive on the eve of the

feast of St John Baptist, under whose patronage Cotterley church was placed. Yet in the year 1939 there was a very strange occurrence which may be recorded in some detail.

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Last week A Podcast to the Curious posted a discussion of  "Cushi" (1952) by Christopher Woodforde.

"Cushi" is more Swain (or the Maugham who wrote "The Verger") than M. R. James, but it has some finely droll moments. 

I read the story this morning in The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories (1987).

Jay

25 June 2022