“The Cotillon” by L.P. Hartley #GBSS25/27

“The Cotillon” by L.P. Hartley Number 25 of 27 Great British Short Stories 

Premise: A dance (Cotillon) ends very badly indeed

Review: Nicely done – creepy af.  Obvious how it will end, but so what

Outa ten: 9

Keywords: Ghost stories, the past is never the past, country houses

Quotes: “Jack Manning’s task was neither easy nor agreeable, and he was a born bungler“  p352.

Words: none

Look up: “The band, which for some time past had been playing nineteenth-century waltzes, now burst into the strains of John Peel”??

Afterlives of the story/connections to other stuff: Poe’s Masque of the Red Death

Is it online? no