Selected by Douglas Preston, the author, most recently, of ‘The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder.’
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” A professor, not unlike James himself, goes on a seaside holiday for golf and to examine some old ruins. In poking about, he turns up an ancient whistle decorated with a curious Latin phrase. Although “a little rusty” in his Latin, he puzzles out a translation: “Who is this who is coming?” He decides the best way to find out is to blow the whistle. Bad idea. The note that comes out has “a quality of infinite distance in it,” and it conjures up—well, to tell you would be a spoiler.
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