‘Perhaps you don’t know how repulsive and loathsome is the ghost of a living man. The ghosts of the dead may be all right, but the ghost of mad Johnnie gave me the creeps . . .’
So speaks the narrator of Muriel Spark’s haunting tale, The Leaf-sweeper, before going on to recount the disturbing and mercilessly witty story of a certain ‘madman’, Johnnie Geddes – a man hell-bent on outlawing Christmas – who meets the most terrifying of all apparitions: himself.
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