“The Demon Lover” by Elizabeth Bowen
Number 10 of 27 Great British Short Stories
Premise: A woman finds a letter in her Blitz-threatened house
Review: Creepy af. Clever, nasty etc.
Outa ten: 10
Keywords: World War 2, World War 1, London, Blitz, psychopomps
Quotes: “… her married London home’s air of being a cracked cup from which memory, with its reassuring power, had either evaporated or leaked away…” p.116
Words: nil
Look up: nil
Afterlives of the story/connections to other stuff:
“based on a traditional “border ballad” or folksong of the same title, the oldest version of which, “A Warning for Married Women,” collected by English diarist Samuel Pepys in 1703,”
A bit “Appointment at Samara”-y, but that’s okay.
Is it online? Yes
marchudson.net 
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