Russell Kirk and the Haunting of Piety Hill ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Russell Kirk and the Haunting of Piety Hill ~ The Imaginative Conservative

The curtain between the world of the living and that of the dead was for Russell Kirk truly thin, as evidenced in his scholarly work and in his fiction. A ghost, as Kirk understood it, was a soul trapped between physical and eternal existence. The curtain between the world of the living and of the dead was for Russell Kirk truly thin, as evidenced in his scholarly work and in his fiction. This essay deals specifically with the role of sacramenta…