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Tag Archives: ghost story
The Weaver and The Factory Maid (first chapter)
Unite and unite and let us all unite For summer is a-coming today. (from “Padstow Mayday”) On a bright Saturday afternoon in Cornwall, the Padstow Mayday Celebration was in full swing. The musical part of the annual festivities had begun … Continue reading
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Tagged English mystery, ghost story
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John Langan’s House of Windows
It’s the ultimate catch-22 of horror fiction that if it draws its tropes and references from the world outside of the horror genre, many horror critics feel it loses horror credibility, while if it contains all the marks of exceptional … Continue reading
Tagged ghost story
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Cherie Priest’s Wings to the Kingdom
Deep river, my home is over Jordan, Deep river, Lord, I want to cross over into campground. Deep river, my home is over Jordan Deep river, Lord, I want to cross over into campground Trad. spiritual, Civil War era Cherie … Continue reading
Tagged ghost story, southern gothic
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Cherie Priest’s Not Flesh Nor Feathers
Not Flesh Nor Feathers is Cherie Priest’s third novel concerning Eden Moore. It is set once again in the lush southern strangeness of the Tennessee River Valley that cradles Chattanooga. This one is a real tour de force, too — it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged ghost story, Southern Gothic mystery
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Cherie Priest’s Four and Twenty Blackbirds
Cherie Priest is a first time novelist. However, she writes with ease and a deceptive power, like the flow of the Tennessee River through her home city of Chattanooga. Four and Twenty Blackbirds is a Southern Gothic with a hint of hard … Continue reading
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Tagged ghost story, Southern Gothic mystery
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Ray Fawkes’ Gotham By Midnight
As you might have noticed in my review of the DC Showcase’s The Spectre animated short film, I find this DC character fascinating. So I was deeply interested when I heard that DC had announced Ray Fawkes’ Gotham By Midnight, the Gotham … Continue reading
Posted in Graphic Literature
Tagged Batman, DC Comivs, ghost story, Gotham City, horror
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Peter S. Beagle’s A Fine and Private Place
A Fine and Private Place is a layered temporal paradox, a bit of separate space/time that twists off the main stream into a sparkling little soap-bubble universe of its own. First paradox: It’s about life after death, and life during death, … Continue reading
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Tagged ghost story, Ravens
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Charles de Lint’s The Blue Girl
I have read nearly everything that de Lint has done, fiction-wise. Really. Truly. Almost all of it fiction has been good enough to warrant repeated readings, and very little of it disappointed me. So do take note when I say The … Continue reading
Charles de Lint’s The Mystery of Grace
Charles de Lint is without doubt one of the best loved writers among our reviewers here. It was a typical winter afternoon as I sat down to read The Mystery of Grace — cold, wet, and a driving sleet falling hard, … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles de lint, ghost story
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Peter S. Beagle’s Tamsin
Peter S. Beagle’s Tamsin first saw the light of day as a story idea for a Disney animated feature. Disney never followed through. Beagle did, finally, for which I think we can all be grateful. Thirteen year-old New Yorker Jenny Gluckstein lives … Continue reading