Murther and Walking Spirits

Murther and Walking Spirits is, in a way, another ghost story, a genre Davies visited in his short story collection High Spirits (1982). In the very first sentence of the novel, "Gil" Gilmartin, the protagonist and narrator, is murdered. He then attends a strange film festival, where he sees "films" retracing the history of his ancestors. The films, dealing as they do with more and more recent subjects, bring the novel to its modern-day conclusion.