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| rdfs:label | - Thurlow's Christmas Story
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| rdfs:comment | - The story's title character and protagonist is a writer named Henry Thurlow who is asked to write a ghost story for the Christmas issue of a magazine called the Idler. Thurlow has great difficulty writing the story. At the time that he is supposed to be working on the story, Thurlow finds himself being haunted by a ghostly double of himself. The story is presented in the form of two letters. In the first letter, Thurlow explains why he submitted twenty-four pieces of blank paper to the Idler magazine instead of a story. The second letter is a reply from the editor of the magazine to Thurlow.
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| abstract | - The story's title character and protagonist is a writer named Henry Thurlow who is asked to write a ghost story for the Christmas issue of a magazine called the Idler. Thurlow has great difficulty writing the story. At the time that he is supposed to be working on the story, Thurlow finds himself being haunted by a ghostly double of himself. The story is presented in the form of two letters. In the first letter, Thurlow explains why he submitted twenty-four pieces of blank paper to the Idler magazine instead of a story. The second letter is a reply from the editor of the magazine to Thurlow. An abridged version of "Thurlow's Christmas Story" is read by Christopher Eccleston in the third episode of the British radio mini-series The Devil's Christmas. The episode first aired on BBC Radio 2 on December 19, 2007.
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