- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: DAW (Mar 9 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0886779928
- ISBN-13: 978-0886779924
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.4 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 91 g
- Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,908,191 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book Description
Here, in this new original collection, are ghost tales to frighten, mysteries to solve, histories to dig up, and skeletons to bury.
Includes stories by:
Roland Green
Brian A. Hopkins
Lisanne Norman
Andre Norton
Bruce Holland Rogers
Michael A. Stackpole
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
and others
Includes stories by:
Roland Green
Brian A. Hopkins
Lisanne Norman
Andre Norton
Bruce Holland Rogers
Michael A. Stackpole
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
and others
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1.0 out of 5 stars
No Ghost Stories Here!,
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This review is from: Historical Hauntings (Paperback)
As anyone with a fondness for the genre knows, a "ghost story" is not any story with something labeled a "ghost" in it; a ghost story offers an encounter with the unknown and unexplained, a meeting with something that is outside the realm of the expected. Ghost stories contain elements of suspense. By such a definition most of the stories in this piece are not ghost stories.I do not blame the writers -- some of the stories are decently written. I do blame the editors for imagining these action yarns constitute ghost stories. The first, "Fighting Spirits" is a supernatural confrontation with some monsters from beyond. No ghostly suspense; just a fight scene. The second, "Jennie in the Field" is a ghost story, but not a particularly well-written one. The third, Andre Norton's "Ravenmere," is an exception -- an excellent little story. "In the Charnel House," apparently attempts to be a Kafkaesque morality play but leaves me looking at an over-played and insufficiently justified moral. "When You're Dead" is an adventure / escape story "ghosted up" by a too easily labeled Harry Houdini. "Spirit of Honor" is an Oriental sword & sorcery piece, not a ghost story. Get the idea? This is definitely the most disappointing ghost story anthology I've purchased (and I've purchased more than a few).
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent, subtle horror,
By A Customer
This review is from: Historical Hauntings (Paperback)
The cover caught my attention, and so I bought it. I'm waiting for the next volume. There's Houdini's ghost, Helen Keller's, some WWII guys, all of them excellent and most of them with surprising, twists. My favorites were Jimmy Hoffa's ghost and Andre Norton's story.
1.0 out of 5 stars
You said scary stories.HA ha ha.........,
By Masafumi Yamamoto (Koganei-shi, Tokyo Japan) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Historical Hauntings (Paperback)
This book doesn`t keep the promises.As you read the title you expect to be intertained with SCARY stories about ghosts but once I began to read it I soon give up because this book is SO boring.Some cold air,a small strange noise and a little mist and that is all.I don`t know where those writers picked up their ghost???? stories.
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