Jolly Corner (Version 2)

Spencer Brydon returns to the New York townhouse of his childhood after thirty-three years abroad, and finds himself haunted not by a traditional ghost but by the man he might have become. Each night he stalks the empty rooms, searching for the successful American businessman who inhabited the life he abandoned. When he finally confronts his spectral double, the encounter becomes a dizzying meditation on identity, choice, and the terrible weight of unlived possibility. James renders Brydon's psychological descent with unsettling precision: his growing obsession, his split between the refined European he has become and the aggressive American he left behind, the strange grief of meeting a self that never was. The ghost story framework dissolves into something more unsettling - a portrait of a man terrified to discover that the phantom he's been chasing might be more real than he is.