The character of the conservator reappears here; the setting is again a museum, this time one haunted less by bottled-up desire than by a repressed colonial past.
Extraordinary though one moment of Sally Morgan's reading was, for some reason I'm haunted less by the ghosts of relatives than by my most recent conversation with Richard Wiseman, and especially his last phrase: "It took me a little under 90 minutes".
There could be a renewed push for tax reform, shifting the burden, as Mrs Thatcher did, from income tax to other kinds.Britain is not the place it was in 1979: it is more complex, more tolerant and hedonistic, haunted less by imperial decline than by pseudo-imperial overstretch.
Frank, whose last name is not Selby but Cartwright, grows up to be an actor, and finds himself on the edge of middle age haunted less by his parentage than by the memory of his first girlfriend, whose mental illness initially manifested itself in the midst of their teenage romance.
The ideal candidate's nightmares are haunted less by Freddy Krueger, and more so by Freddie Mercury.
If you make the cat's usual haunts less attractive, you might want to provide them with an out-of-the-way area in your yard to decrease the chances of them returning to the forbidden zones.
Mr. Mobutu's taking of sides in Angola would return to haunt him, less than two years later, when Zairian opponents were allowed to use Angolan territory successfully to attack copper-rich Shaba province.
As they climb higher in an organization and the ability to motivate others becomes far more important, poor interpersonal skills, indifference to other people's development, and a belief that they no longer need to improve themselves come to haunt these less effective leaders the most.
(The voice of Leary, you say? But Dr. Leary died 11 years ago!) Elsewhere, the haunting is less sad, less human and more weird.
But while James, with his famous ambiguities, was able to turn the ghost story on its psychological head, Phillips inserts a therapeutic voice: "I rather think a true haunting is less a sudden infestation of transparent pests than a settling of ingredients, the boiling over of a concoction that has been heating for years".
