Victims: A Ghost Story

The celebrated author of novels such as The House of Mirth, Wharton was also a terrific writer of ghostly tales. A blend of Poe, Hawthorne and Henry James, she has a lightness of touch that belies the often very grisly tale. This story, first published in the Pictorial Review in , has a fabulous sense of place and is a revenant story with a twist. It leaves the reader doubting their interpretation of events. This is my favourite children's ghost story, a wonderful time-slip novel set during the first world war.

Lucy and Jamie Allen move with their mother and baby brother to the country, where their mother has been engaged by a mysterious gentleman, Mr Blunden, as caretaker of an abandoned house until the rightful owner can be traced. One day, Lucy is walking in the garden to explore and to pick flowers when she meets Sara and Georgie.

It becomes clear that the children are ghosts, children of the house who died years ago in the fire that destroyed the estate. It's a gentle, thoughtful ghost story, of parallel time and the chance to make amends for mistakes in an earlier life. For my money, the greatest of the contemporary ghost writers. Hill creates believable period characters, she creates a hermetic world that yet speaks of wider superstitions and histories, and creates plots with tension, pace and jeopardy without ever becoming heavy-handed.

This is a story of vengeance, of an old curse from an embittered woman, all centred on the brooding Eel Marsh House, gloomy and isolated and cut off from the mainland at high tide. As the tension of premonition and disaster builds and builds, the ghostly screams of an accident long ago will haunt the reader's imagination long after the last page has been turned. Buy The Winter Ghosts from the Guardian bookshop "Spirits and apparitions, headless monks and white ladies, the traditional ghost story still exerts a hold on our imaginations.

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Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. I really enjoyed this work by Ms. Her writing is very easy to read. You can tell by the content detail that she has indeed done her research.

Again another book you can't put down until you finish reading the last page. This book hit very much at home as she did research and stories in Reno, Virginia City and Donner Park. Destinations close enough that I have visited each many times. After about 15 minutes, I remember drifting off into a deep sleep when I was awoken by cold hands of a spirit, slowly starting to remove my underwear.

My husband was snoring quietly next to me, I tried to scream out but nothing came out, I was frozen in terror. As my underwear was being removed, I felt a small nibble on my ear and what felt like deep breathing that was tickling the back of my neck.

I was paralysed as my underwear reached below my butt cheeks and began to clench my teeth in preparation for the penetration I was about to receive. I cannot begin to describe how agonising the next 10 minutes were, I lay in the bed unable to move, quietly crying to myself, as I felt the ghost enter me from behind. It felt like hours had passed when as soon as it had started, it stopped. I felt violated, and fearful that it would return, so I pulled up my underwear and noticed that there was a small patch of ectoplasm on the sheets that were now slightly damp.

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