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Answer the following questions briefly.

Does the narrator like writing ghost stories? Support your answer with evidence from the story.

No, the narrator didn’t particularly like writing ghost stories. This is evident when he says that he hadn’t the shade of an idea and that he didn’t specialize in ghost stories but instead, ghost stories specialized in him.


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