His eyes were as red burning coals long grey hair fell over his shoulders in matted coils his garments, which were of antique cut, were soiled and ragged, and from his wrists and ankles hung heavy manacles and rusty gyves. In the dead of night, Otis hears chains clanking in the halls and beholds an awful sight: Right in front of him he saw, in the wan moonlight, an old man of terrible aspect. The ghost, Sir Simon Canterville - who's been scaring the daylights out of the house's inhabitants since his death in 1584 - wastes no time in mounting a haunt. Otis, an 'American minister' who purchases an English country house and moves in with his family despite dire warnings that it is haunted. When Marley's ghost comes rattling his chains, you may remember, the old miser drops his gruffness in the face of his old associate's awful warnings. When it comes to handling ghosts, the characters in Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost (in a new recording from Naxos AudioBooks) are far bolder than Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. 'Paranormal activity at Wilde's Canterville.
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