"Oke of Okehurst," which was originally published under the more descriptive title "The Phantom Lover," is a strange, effective, almost Henry Jamesian look at the weird and nebulous but inescapably powerful bond of love still vital across centuries. Or is it a story of mental illness? Or something else - something ambigously else - altogether? This story may well have been a powerful influence on Olivia Howard Dunbar's "The Long Chamber," which deals with very similar themes in a very similar way. Or, to put it more abstractly, these two works may be meditations on the ineluctable interrelatedness of the past and present.