Question

What had jenkins ask narrator to do

Answer 1

Jenkins was the owner of a magazine. Though it has not been mentioned very explicitly that Jenkins liked the stories composed by Hallock, it is clear that he always forced him to write ghost stories for him. He believed that Hallock had the ability to write interesting ghost stories. He was in a way the major driving force behind Hallock writing these ghost stories.

Helen is the ghost in the story. Helen is angry because the ghosts had to be at the beck and call of the Ouija board fanatics to answer their questions. This does not leave them with any time for their amusement or haunting others. In her past life, Helen was a writer who gave up her job to work as a reader of a magazine. She had suffered miserably in her past life and to prevent other writers from suffering , she organizes 'The Writer's Inspiration Bureau' in her ghost life