The Pan Books give a wrong impression of English life.
In England this does happen from time to time, but not that often. One of at least three Pan Book stories about burning up a real live person instead of a guy on Bonfire Night. In the Pan Books women are able to chop up two people at once. Her friend Lucy convinces her that her husband George and special nurse Miss Higgins are having an affair and that they have no intention of seeing her released. Vi is in rehab, drying out after a humiliating drunken episode at a party.
So I don't know who should be madder at who. Later totally stolen by Stephen King and reworked into Pet Semetary. Reworking of a very famous story called The Monkey’s Paw and gave me a real jolt aged 14. But of course it doesn't really work out. The Burnells are set upon adopting a little boy and when they visit the orphanage and are introduced to Paul they're knocked out by his pale elfin features. I think it's the same one that's in the Marvelettes "Needle in a Haystack". I've compressed events a little, but that's the gist of it. Naturally, he gets into conversation with her, they agree to get married, and he strangles her. On impulse, our Ron climbs a ladder and finds himself in the bedroom of Clara, a plain and lonely woman who's just been reading about the murders. Ronald Raikes, 31, is wanted for questioning in connection with the murders of four London prostitutes who have been strangled in a week. It was wonderful stuff because, mostly, the writers had already dispensed with the gothic trappings of the ghost story all that spookyookums nonsense and were concentrating on the poetry of severed limbs and eyeballs and gouts and screaming. This series populated my teenage nightmares with psycopaths, torturers, vampires, sadists and unnaturally pale young girls.
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