Shownotes
About this episode
You can listen and download the New Ghost Stories Podcast from a number of platforms. And if you enjoy this UK horror podcast, please take a moment to leave a review. It really helps the show. We’ve talked before on the podcast about how many classic ghost stories focus on injustice. An act of crime or cruelty results in someone’s ruin and death, whose anguished spirit later returns to enact a terrible revenge. And to some extent, that dampens the horror. Readers can’t look away as the tale unfolds, and when the horror strikes, it’s tempered by the fact that it’s happening to someone who deserves it. We still get to feel safe because it’s happening to the guilty; it couldn’t possibly happen to someone like us. Judgment is passed and it’s passed on the right people. How unlike real life, where increasingly we are learning about the injustices of the justice system. How the wrong people are sentenced for crimes they didn’t commit. Where blind justice still manages to punish certain ethic or social groups disproportionately for their offenses, when compared to other groups. And where miscarriages of justice, once discovered, are met with institutional denial and obstruction. The classic horror trope is that you can never escape your sins. You can’t escape punishment for the crimes that you commit. But true horror, is perhaps to face punishment for the crimes that you didn’t. If you’d like to support this real ghost story podcast, please consider becoming a patron at Patreon.com/newghoststories This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit newghoststories.substack.com