The Businessman: A Tale of Terror | Characters
The Businessman features well-developed characters. Most of them are ordinary people caught up in an extraordinary interaction of the spirit world and Earth. Bob Glandier is a venal businessman with ordinary tastes and petty emotions; his evil is banality. Giselle, the wife Glandier murdered, is a spirit who had been predestined by God to be a saint. Her murder ties her spirit into the nightmarish dreams of her husband. Giselle's mother, Joy-Ann Anker, dies of cancer and finds herself under the care of the spirit of a nineteenth-century actress and poetaster, Adah Menken. A...
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