. . . "I tried to address some of the issues it raises by telling a different sort of story in a similar setting ??? and so The Little Stranger itself is a kind of haunted house, with faint echoes of Tey???s book in the text, alongside the echoes of more obviously gothic writers like Dickens, du Maurier, and Edgar Allan Poe.Q. What kind of experience do you hope readers have in reading this novel?I hope" .