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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Richard Luscombe

‘Eerie gem’ of an unearthed Graham Greene story published in Strand Magazine

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Graham Greene in France. Photograph: Louis Monier/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images

A short ghost story by Graham Greene described by analysts as “an eerie gem” was published for the first time on Wednesday, a rare glimpse into the largely uncelebrated darker side of one of the giants of 20th-century literature.

Reading at Night appears in the 75th issue of Strand Magazine, a Michigan-based literary quarterly that has built a reputation for finding and publishing “lost” writings of well-known authors.

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