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The Man Who Got Off the Ghost Train

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The Man Who Got Off the Ghost Train	comment	"The Man Who Got Off the Ghost Train" is a novella in the Diogenes Club series by Kim Newman. The bulk of the story is set in the 1950s, with a frame story set in the late 1970s. It serves as a series finale for the subseries set in the 1970s and featuring Richard Jeperson, Vanessa, and Fred Regent.In the frame story, Richard and Fred are rushing to answer an urgent but uninformative summons from Vanessa when a series of mishaps leave them stranded in a remote railway siding. While they await the next train back to civilisation, Richard passes the time by telling Fred the story of his first mission as an agent of the Diogenes Club.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })In the 1950s, Diogenes agents Harry Cutley, Annette Amboise, Danny "Magic Fingers" Myles, and Richard Jeperson board the Scotch Streak, an express train from London to Scotland with a reputation for being haunted and a high fatality rate among its passengers. They are unprepared for what they will find, and not all of them will get off alive at the other end.Richard will, of course, because he's telling the story.So will one of the other passengers: a strange little girl named Vanessa.
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The Man Who Got Off the Ghost Train / int_3ec27f76	comment	Costume Porn: As is traditional for the series, Richard's eye-searingly-1970s outfit is described in loving detail. Then the Whole Episode Flashback begins, and the same care and attention is given to young Richard's eye-searingly-1950s outfit.
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The Man Who Got Off the Ghost Train / int_5b5623ab	comment	Condensation Clue: Used by Annette to both test and troll Richard on the Scotch Streak. She wrote ominous words on the mirror of his train compartment's bathroom just to see if he'd discover them.
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The Man Who Got Off the Ghost Train / int_b652fd1	comment	Blitz Evacuees: Myles was evacuated during the Blitz as a child, an unpleasant experience which the Scotch Streak haunt forces him to relive in exaggerated form.
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The Man Who Got Off the Ghost Train / int_e3c36782	comment	Call-Forward: Alastair Garnett, the hapless government functionary Richard and Fred are saddled with at the beginning, who is said to be of the group in government who want the Diogenes replaced with something more regular and bureaucratic, first appeared in Jago as the official government liaison to IΨT, the NGO that replaced the Diogenes after that group got its way.
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