1. The full reference for this ghost story is: Edmund Crispin, The Case of the Gilded Fly (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1954), pp. 67–75.
2. Julia Briggs, Night Visitors: The Rise and Fall of the English Ghost Story (London: Faber, 1977), p. 24.
3. M. R. James, ‘Introduction’, in Ghosts and Marvels: A Selection of Uncanny Tales from Daniel Defoe to Algernon Blackwood, ed. by V. H. Collins (London: Oxford University Press, 1924), p. vi.
4. Clive Bloom, ‘Introduction’, in Gothic Horror: A Reader’s Guide from Poe to King and Beyond, ed. by Clive Bloom (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998), p. 2.
5. Harold Bloom, ‘Preface’ in The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (New York: Oxford University Press, (1997), p. xxiii.