David leaves the train station and goes looking for his wife.

(from Just After Sunset)

This warrants a Spoiler Alert tag: It’s a rather remarkable coincidence that I read this story right after reading “A Haunted House” by Virginia Woolf. Neither is new. Both concern ghostly couples living in a sort hazy existence between the real world and whatever comes next. David and Willa, though, don’t know they’re not alive. All they know is they need to take a train that could come by any time now. It’s a freaky, tense kind of story. Eerie, I guess would be the word. Simply told, to heighten suspense and keep us in the dark. I keep meaning to read more Stephen King.