The Box at the Bank

Fiction ~ short story
First published in Hutchinson's Magazine, March 1928
Collected in The Flint Knife







THE CRITICS

His own ambivalence toward, and abiding fascination with, the supernatural, means that a healthy edge of scepticism undercuts even his lighter, more whimsical tales, like the first two [in the collection Sea Mist], dealing with time-slips and mediums - Sir Roger de Coverley and The Box at the Bank.

Nevertheless, the latter contains a medium's declaration of faith, "We hear things that are not audible to our corporeal senses", and Fred, who admitted to attending a number of seances himself, does not always mock or dismiss the possibility, however unlikely, of some genuine communication with or from whatever lies Beyond. But philosophic speculations never ruin his rattling (or creeping) good yarns [...]

~Alexis Lykiard. Quoted from his review of Ash-Tree Press' Sea Mist, first published in All Hallows magazine, 06/2005