The Demon Lover By Elizabeth Bowen

The Demon Lover is a story written by Elizabeth Bowen which leaves a really big question, is the character of the story in a psychological trauma or is she being chase by and actual eidolon. This story is quite ambiguous, personally I like to think it's a ghost story, just read the title, DEMON lover. For me this is a clear indication that the main character is being haunted by a spectral spirit.

Subsequently, there are many evidences in the story that make me think that there is a ghost chasing our main character Mrs. Drover. The clearest evidence in my opinion is the letter left to her in her old escritoire. It was a letter written to her so she would read it on this exact day she visited her former house on London, it was signed by K. Nobody
but her family knew she was going to be there. This made be thing that a force beyond explanation is responsible for this act. The next evidence that I would like to bring up is how Mrs. Drover felt a burst of wind when she was going downstairs. Usually when a human being has this kind of feeling is because they felt the presence of a ghost or spectral presence.

Last but not least we have the taxi experience towards the end of the story. When Mrs. Drover was going home she called for a taxi or a cab since we are on British lands. She got into the cab and she leaned toward the driver's seat and she had a shocking look on her face and then she screamed. After this the cab went to the opposite direction from her house. This is the evidence that got me to think it is a ghost story. My personal opinion is that the cab driver is the actual demon lover of Mrs. Drover, but hey that's just a theory. I like reading this kind of dreary and ambiguous stories. It leaves the outcome to whatever the reader wants to think.