- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: John Goodchild Publishers (18 Oct 1984)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0863910637
- ISBN-13: 978-0863910630
- Product Dimensions: 20 x 13.8 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,557,567 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This review is from: Dark Encounters: A Collection of Ghost Stories (Hardcover)
This book is a collection of ghost stories of the kind which is often fashioned as 'Jamesian', i.e. in the tradition of the Doyen of English ghost stories, M.R. James. The first 8 stories were clearly author's favourites, since they involved a setting that must have been well-known to him personally & professionally, and through them he could infuse a sincerety into the traditional ghost stories at the centre of the each "event" under discussion. However, the final 5 stories drag the collection down, by trying to incorporate supernatural in things (& fields) that were beyond the ambit of the author, and thus losing that vital element of authenticity that had sparkled in the first batch of stories. Nevertheless, with a resurgence of interest in ghost stories (and stories involving all sorts of revenants in general) being seen now-a-days, this book, with its gentle tone and understated menace, is likely to be an entertaining read for the darkening evenings. Recommended.
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