Review of Isobel Mackenzie, “Conveyance,” Luna Station Quarterly 63 (September 2025): 187-200 — Purchase here. Reviewed by Sara L. Uckelman.
As a matter of constitution, I’m predisposed to like stories about lesbian ghost hunters. Alas, I’m also predisposed to wanting my stories to be historically accurate (in so far as “ghost stories” and “accuracy” belong in the same sentence), which meant that as soon as we were introduced to a Roman ghost who’s been haunting London since her death “a hundred years before the birth of Christ” (p. 189), I rather lost my faith in the author. Which was a shame, because this ghost turned out to be almost entirely irrelevant to the story, and the rest of the story was distinctive, not your usual sort of ghost story, and I would have liked to have enjoyed it more than I did.
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