Dear Guest and Ghost
May 18, 2018
“Dear Guest and Ghost” by Sylvia Dee (1914-1967) is a 1950 comic novel in which the Helmakobbler family of Manhattan is forced by the post-war real estate shortage to move to Staten Island, a place depicted as a bleak rural backwater, populated by backward eccentrics. They move into a “Victorian monstrosity” straight out of a … More Dear Guest and Ghost