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“Advent Reunion” In List of Scariest Ghost Stories

October 28, 2012 Books

  In time for Halloween — and to promote his Big Book of Ghost Stories — editor Otto Penzler has listed his pick for the fourteen scariest ghost stories. I’m proud to say my own “Advent Reunion,” which is included in the big book, makes the grade. This is all the more pleasant for a [...]

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Great Ghosts for Halloween

October 17, 2011 Books

  As readers of my blog will know, I am a huge ghost story fan.  But I only recently discovered this wonderful series from the British publisher Wordsworth books.  Their Mystery and the Supernatural line includes such hard to find stuff as a collection by Oliver Onions—the funny-named author of the classic ghost novella “The [...]

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10 Great Spooky Stories

October 25, 2010 Culture

For me, the greatest form for the spooky story is, in fact, the story, the short story.  I know there are exceptions (a recent good one was Joe Hill’s Heart-Shaped Box), but in general I find the novel too long a form to sustain the subtle, delicate kind of scares I particularly like.  Movies can [...]

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