By Docia Schultz Williams
Well known storyteller Docia Williams gathers a medley of a few of the simplest haunting tales from her 4 past books-Spirits of San Antonio and South Texas, Phantoms of the Plains, Ghosts alongside the Texas Coast, and whilst Darkness Falls-then she provides 100 pages of recent ghostly stories from the Piney Woods of East Texas and from North principal Texas, together with the Dallas zone. once more Mrs. Williams brings to mild tangible proof and eyewitness testimony in most sensible stories of Texas Ghosts to validate an illusive global with no measurement, one packed with extraordinary and aggravating debts of unexplained presences. After interviewing hundreds and hundreds of individuals with firsthand reports and in my opinion witnessing eerie manifestations, she has concluded, "There are issues occurring throughout us that could in basic terms be categorised as supernatural."
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In featuring these particular stories, I make no claim that the presence of the former has necessarily influenced the latter. It is, of course, possible that James may have been motivated or even influenced by Conan Doyle’s story when writing ‘The Treasure of Abbot Thomas’, but certainly my research reveals no such connection. Much more important is the way that both these exemplary texts possess a natural engagement with one another in form, content, and theme, which informs the relationship between detective fiction and the ghost story.
29 From this moment, the remainder of the story is told in Somerton’s ‘voice’, presumably as recalled by Gregory and Brown. This extended displacement of the narrative from the point of action underlines a fundamental trope in James’s ghost stories. Reference has already been made to the urbane sense of detachment; this latest device adds even more weight to a feeling of scholarly abstraction in the writing, so much so that, as ghost stories, they read more and more like intellectual inquiry. Although the effect of this approach is to convert storytelling into a painstaking cerebral exercise, it does have the effect of throwing the shock moments into stark relief.
As with Holmes, we are in that rarefied atmosphere of the independent, privileged classes; Somerton is an amateur, ‘a man of leisure’6 with a ‘manor house’7 and a ‘confidential valet’ thus8 and enough time on his hands to pursue his own personal interests. Thus, the first part of ‘The Treasure of Abbot Thomas’ is brought to an end. 9 The story of the crime rematerializes as the story of the mystery, and so the way has been prepared for the investigation phase; revealingly James actually refers to Somerton as an ‘investigator’ when he decides to pursue the mystery.
