I continued to practice, throughout the interview, the caution with which I commenced it.

i feel like it is actually b.

the answer is academic paper

and the second should be college professor

jenkins wanted the narrator to write a ghost story for his magazine. he wanted the narrator to give the readers a story based on the supernatural. he wanted him to give the readers real 'horror' stories and not the type of live ghosts which he had presented in his earlier stories.