53. The Lost Child of Lychford by Paul Cornell

Another novella, the follow up to Cornell's novella from last year, The Witches of LychfordWhere the first book was mostly humorous - about three women, who all in one way or another can tap in to something "other", trying to stop a supermarket setting up shop on the outskirts of their small town, ( Read more... )

32. Fellside by MR CareyA ghost story set in a women's prison. I'm a big fan of Carey's work and attended an interview with him at Waterstones where he talked about this book & the research he did before I read it, so I know that he has become a passionate advocate for prison reform and against the privatisation the prison services and the ( Read more... )

I had thoughts about all of these at the time; but I've it off too long to have anything meaningful to say.

41. The Wylde Hunt by Gunnar Roxen
Bought this from the author at BristolCon last year. It's a far-future hardboiled detective/scifi adventure. The London in it is so far-future and alternative that I think it would have been better ( Read more... )

Yes, I know. Anyway, there's a couple more:

54. Haunted Highway: The Spirits of Route 66 by Elle Robson and Diane FreemanLocal ghost story collection my mother picked up for me on one of their winter trips to the southwestern US. None of the stories are particularly spooky, but a lot of the locations sounded really cool, so it infected me with ( Read more... )

41. The Spook House by Ambrose Bierce

Bierce was a 19th-century American writer of ghost stories (and other weird & macabre tales), though is primarily remembered today for The (Enlarged) Devil's Dictionary. His stories often appear in collections of Golden Age stories of the supernatural, though I have to admit that I couldn't remember any, nor ( Read more... )

30. Ghost Stories of British Columbia by Barbara Smith

Not one of the best in the series, which is a disappointment as the history and geography of BC should make for some great ghost stories. There might well be some in here, but the way she tells them fails to excite.

31. The Reapers by John ConnollyI've been putting this off because I wanted ( Read more... )

Not the best ghost story movie (for that is still The Changeling), and a bit predictable (you know when the "make you jump" moments are coming, but they're pretty effective nonetheless), but not bad either. There are worse ways to waste an hour and a half ( Read more... )