SOURCE: "Ghosts in the Landscape," in paragraph, Vol. 13, No. 2, 1991, pp. 3-5.

In the following essay, based on an interview with Urquhart, Canton reveals Urquhart's thoughts on the writing process and the role of landscape and the fantastic in her work.

"I had explored the graveyard outside the Bronte parsonage," explains Jane Urquhart, "but on my way out to the moors, I noticed another graveyard, slightly newer. Wandering through it, I saw a tombstone engraved with a balloon, and a woman's name and dates. It's one of the most terrifying graveyards that I've been in. When I went to live in Yorkshire, in the village of Stanbury, which is as close to the site of Wuthering Heights as you can get, I asked about this grave, and was told that the woman buried there had been a stunt performer. She took off over the Bronte moors as part of...