Not every ghost story deserves five stars.

This one does.

Atmosphere. Emotional weight. Tension that lingers.

Full review in the video.

What’s your last true 5-star horror read?

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📚 The Heart of Everything by: Marc Levy

There's nothing too unusual about a father asking his son for a favor unless, of course, the father in question has been dead for five years.

Thomas, a young virtuoso pianist living a quiet, carefully structured life in France, is stunned when his late father, Raymond, s...

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📚 Ghost Tamer by: Meredith R. Lyons

Death is one thing, it's what you do afterward that matters.

Aspiring-comedian Raely is the sole survivor of a disastrous train wreck. Faced with the intense grief of losing her best friend, she realizes that someone is following her—and has been following her all her life. Trouble is, no one else can see...

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📚 A Sudden Light by: Garth Stein

Twenty-three years after the fateful summer of 1990, Trevor Riddell recalls the events surrounding his fourteenth birthday, when he gets his first glimpse of the infamous Riddell House. Built from the spoils of a massive timber fortune, the legendary family mansion is constructed of gi...

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If you like Christmas Ghost stories, I'm doing a Black Friday special on Ghost Stories For Christmas, Volume One. The Kindle version is just 99 cents/79 pence/148 yen today for thirty vintage festive ghost stories.
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A mother, having lost her child, interacts with her ghost as if nothing has changed. #Storytober #GhostFiction #microhorror

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Samhain

Been years since still-birthin’ Wandalene an’ I been feelin’ phantom cold-mouth nursin’ on my breast. The house has taken to falling in tatters—the aged lace of wallpa…

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You can read an uinterview with me and a review of my edited anthology Gost Stories For Christmas, Volume One on Doug Gibson’s Plan 9 Crunch blog.
https://planninecrunch.blogspot.com/2022/12/ghost-stories-for-christmas-underscores.html
Thanks to Arnold Petit for the photo. https://www.youtube.com/c/LaGrandeHanterie

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Ghost Stories for Christmas underscores traditions, celebrations of Christmas past

  I've finished reading this absolutely marvelous new anthology, Ghost Stories for Christmas: Volume 1 . Compiled by writer Andi Brooks, it'...

Listen to Linda Gould's wonderful reading of the Charles Dickens' Christmas story The Goblins who Stole a Sexton on her Kaidankai podcast. Published 7 years before A Christmas Carol, it has many similarities & can be seen as a prototype for the more famous story.
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Read the story in my anthology Ghost Stories For Christmas, Volume One. https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Stories-Christmas-Charles-Dickens/dp/B0BHMPR3RY?fbclid=IwAR1U02gp_bRBy0rfKTTMjzkR5Mvhs6jDsLhTl6TuI9bAgiurTSEO44Nvftc
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The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton by Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens really hates grumpy people during Christmas. Here is another story that helps us understand there is much to love about life. Charles Dickens was an English writer of the 1800s who created some of the Western World's most famous stories including Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, and A Tale of Two Cities. You can read "The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton" at https://www.kaidankaistories.com. Follow us on: Twitter: Japanese Ghost Stories @ghostJapanese Mastodon: https://mastodon.sd

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