Reading Laura Mauro’s “Japanese Toilet Ghosts” [FT459:30-35], reminded me of a less well known fear in the Western world, which –according to the modern rabbinical Internet resource site TheTorah.com

ARMED AND DANGEROUS The Ghoul (Walton Goggins, left), ...

JANUARY 1966

These Spectred Isles

In the spring of 1974, DAVID BOWIE arrived in the United States by boat. By the time he left in the spring of 1976, his marriage was ending, his cocaine addiction was spiralling, and he'd become obsessed with Nazis. He'd also made another masterpiece: Station To Station. "We went days without sleeping," his valiant co-conspirators tell GRAYSON HAVER CURRIN. "Inhibitions were out the window."

There’s been a glut of popular media featuring fight-to-the-death style scenarios in recent years. Alice in Borderland, The Hunger Games, Squid Game – stories of normal people being thrust into life-o