{
  "title": "THE AFFAIR AT GROVER STATION",
  "category": "[SHORT-STORY]",
  "article": "“A ghost story based on a short story by Willa Cather… Terrapin Rodgers recounts to Will Carter\nthe riddle of his friend’s death. Carter becomes involved, and terrified.”\n[Wikipedia] “The Affair at Grover Station is a short story by Willa Cather. It was first published\nin Library in June 1900 in two instalments, and reprinted in the Lincoln Courier one month later.\n“The outer narrator meets with his old friend Rodgers by Sterling, Colorado, and asks about the\nmurdered agent at Grover station. Rodgers explains that on the 31st of December there was\nsupposed to be a ball at Cheyenne, Wyoming. His friend Larry asked him to ask Helen if she\nwould be available to go with him. Helen replied that she had told Mr Freymark she would go\nwith him, but she would cancel as Larry took precedence over him. Freymark then went to the\nstation and overheard the two men make arrangements as to sending her flowers, and left saying\nhe had heard what he wanted to hear. Later, Larry didn't turn up and Rodgers went to pick up\nHelen and told her Larry was late. At the ball, she danced with Rodgers until Freymark showed up\nand she danced with him. By the end of the night, Larry's spaniel Duke came hurtling at\nFreymark, who soon disappeared from the place. The next day, Rodgers went about the station\nand then up to Grover, Colorado. There, he found a blood stain on Larry's bed but thought it must\nhave been nosebleed. During the night however, he got woken up by what looked like Larry's\nghost, writing on the chalk board. The next morning, he realised the ghost had written the\nnumber of a train, where Larry's body was to be found in Omaha. Upon seeing the body, Rodgers\nrealised the hands were stained by chalk. By then, Freymark had gone, never to be found again.\nThe Division Superintendent did not believe him, after Freymark admitted to drinking brandy\nthat night.”",
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  "extant_recordings": "",
  "chronology": "(RADIO 4, LONDON)\n[\nDecember 27, 1997\n“The Affair at Grover Station”\n[EXTANT RECORDING]\n[“..A geological student asks an old friend about the recent murder of a\nstation agent…”]\nPERSONNEL: Ross Brown (music? Or sound design?), Jonathan Holloway\n(scriptwriter), David Hunter (director).\nCAST: Nancy Crane, Stuart Milligan, Kerry Shale, Tom Watt.",
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  "images": []
}