After returning from 33 years abroad, Spencer Brydon becomes fixated on a character of this type who, unlike him, works in business, sports a pince-nez, and is missing two fingers on one hand. For 10 points each:
[10m] What type of character lives in a Manhattan house nicknamed “The Jolly Corner”? In a novella, Miles exclaims the name of one of these characters with the phrase “Peter Quint, you devil!”
ANSWER: ghost [accept synonyms including specter or apparition or phantom or poltergeists or spirits; accept an alter-ego; prompt on dead characters; prompt on a servant or a valet with “What non-occupational quality does the character apparently have?”]
[10e] This author of “The Jolly Corner” wrote The Turn of the Screw.
ANSWER: Henry James
[10h] This prolific author of ghost stories described a woman who mysteriously wakes up in an empty snowbound house in “All Souls.” A less freaky story by this author set near the Colosseum ends with the retort “I had Barbara.”
ANSWER: Edith Wharton [or Edith Newbold Jones] (The last story is “Roman Fever.”)
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