Last night I saw Gavin Inglis reading out from his latest book, Crap Ghosts: Second Apparition. This is a set of stories based on the idea that ghosts are always presented as competent at haunting, going through walls etc, but why should people who are incompetent in life suddenly become efficient after death? He told some great tales on this theme, my favourite being about a ghost seeking revenge on his childhood friend who always beat him at monopoly. The ghostly game of monopoly the spectre forces on his living friend is a hoot.
Also, in slasher movies the slasher is astonishingly competent at hiding himself and taking split second opportunities to dispatch yet another expendable actor. In one of the Hallowe'en series of films the evil Michael Myers turned up at a big Gothic school where he wandered about knifing people, striking from various nooks and crannies. You and I would have taken a week to find our way round that building but Michael Myers, who had been locked in a lunatic asylum for most of his life and must have been fairly well institutionalised, knew every corridor and every back stair.
Michael Myers - has he a sat nav device concealed in that knife? His sense of direction is uncanny.
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