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The Unquiet Grave 不平静的坟墓 　　简 介 　　死去的人并非总是安静地躺在坟墓里。有时他们在这个世界上还有没做完的事情或 者想为自己所受的委屈报仇雪恨；或许生活中他们自己也作过恶，即使死了也不得安宁， 所以他们一定要回来给活着的人带来麻烦和恐惧。 　　在这 5 个故事中，死者可能随时随地以最奇怪的方式到来——到牛津某一学院，威 廉斯先生正在那儿饶有兴趣地看着一幅古旧的画作；或者光天化日之下来到年轻的汤姆 森先生度假住的一家小旅馆。爱德华·邓宁先生的房间里灯灭了，他伸手去找火柴，黑暗 中他的手触到的是什么？乡绅鲍尔斯的妻子和继子要问个问题，可只有鲍尔斯知道答案， 你怎么去问一个躺在坟墓里的死人问题呢？当帕金斯教授吹起他拾到的一个很旧的口哨 时，是只有风作答，还是有别的东西？一种你见不着、听不见却又难以想像有多么可怕 的东西… 　　蒙塔古·罗兹·詹姆斯（1862——1936）生于肯特郡，先后担任过剑桥大学的国王学 院及伊顿公学院长，以其鬼怪故事闻名，这些故事问世后便深受欢迎。 　　The Picture 　　The Picture 　　For several years Mr Williams worked for the museum at theUniversity of Oxford，enlarging itsalready famous collection of drawings and pictures of English country housesand churches．It is hard to imagineanything less alarming than collecting pictures of houses and churches，butMr Williams found that even this peaceful work had its unexpected dark corners． 　　He bought many pictures for the museum from the London shopof Mr J．W．Britnell．Twicea year Mr Britnell sent a list of pictures to all his regular customers，whocould then choose which pictures they wanted to look at before decidingwhether to buy． 　　In February 1895 Mr Williams received a list from MrBritnell with the following letter： 　　Dear Sir， 　　I think you might be interested in Picture Number 978 inour list，which I will be happy to sendto you if you wish． 第 1 页 共 62 页 / 原版英语阅读网 　　J．W．Britnell 　　Mr Williams turned to Number 978 in the list and found thefollowing note： 　　Number 978．Artistunknown．Picture of an English countryhouse，early nineteenth century．25centimetres by 40 centimetres．￡20． 　　It did not sound very interesting and the price seemed high．However，MrWilliams added it to the pictures that he asked Mr Britnell to send to him． 　　The pictures arrived at the museum one Saturday afternoon，just after Mr Williams had left．Theywere brought round to his rooms in college so that he could look at them overthe weekend．Mr Williams found them onhis table