Halloween Week!
GHOST STORIES & THE SUPERNATURAL IN FICTION
OCTOBER – Who says ghost don’t exist? Â Certainly within fiction, Â ghosts are part of our “reality.” Â Sometimes even vampires and zombies and demons and even scarier “other-world” type creatures. With Halloween almost upon us, I started thinking about all the books that MostlyFiction.com has reviewed that include “ghost stories” and other supernatural events.
If you are in the mood for a little “spiritual” reading, here are some recommendations… and expect a spooky week of reviews….
Dead Lines by Greg Bear
The Dwelling by Susie Moloney
All That Lives: A Novel of the Bell Witch by Melissa Sanders-Self
The Spiritualist by Megan Chance
Susannah Morrow by Megan Chance
From a Buick 8 by Stephen King
Diary by Chuck Palahniuk
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris
Blue Moon by Laurell K. Hamilton
Lost Souls by Poppy Brite
The Terror by Dan Simmons
Drood by Dan Simmons
An Unpardonable Crime by Andrew Taylor
The Lamplighter by Anthony O’Neill
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan (China)
Peony in Love by Lisa See (14th century China)
Secrets of the Sea by Nicholas Shakespeare (Tasmania)
The Sound of Building Coffins by Louis Maistros
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
Darling Jim by Christian Moerk
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
The Pig Comes to Dinnerby Joseph Caldwell
Death of a Murderer by Rupert Thomson
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
Smonk by Tom Franklin
Miss Corpus by Clay McLeod Chapman
Fangland by John Marks
Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow
The Devil You Know by Mike Carey
Vicious Circle by Mike Carey
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Perfect Circle by Sean Stewart
The Stranger House by Reginald Hill
Cemetery Dance by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Sorcerers of the Nightwing by Geoffrey Huntington
The Ghost Writer by John Harwood
Joplin’s Ghost by Tananarive Due
The Price of Silence by Kate Wilhelm
Second Glance by Jodi Picoult
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Bannerman’s Ghost by John R. Maxim
Mr. Timothy by Louis Bayard
Versailles by Kathryn Davis
Ghost Riders by Sharyn McCrumb
The White Road by John Connolly
From the Ashes by Meghan Brunner
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
The Yellow Rain by Julio Llamazares
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands by Jorge Amado
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Ghostwalk by Rebecca Stott
The Giuliana Legacy by Alexis Masters
The Prince of Lost Places by Kathy Hepinstall
The Disapparation of James by Anne Ursu
The Madman’s Tale by John Katzenbach
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Mercy of Thin Air by Ronlyn Domingue
Yes, My Darling Daughter by Margaret Leroy
The Late, Lamented Molly Marx by Sally Koslow
Child’s Play by Carmen Posada
Isabella Moon by Laura Benedict
What Happened to Henry by Sharon Pywell
The Worthy: A Ghost’s Story by Will Clarke
The Duppy by Arthur C. Winkler
Gentlemen of Space by Ira Sher
The Boy on the Bus by Deborah Schupack
Beyond This Time by Charlotte Banchi
Threads by Nell Gavin
Marguerita Dolce Vita by Stefano Benni
The Bondwoman’s Narrative by Hannah Crafts
Lost Souls by Michael Collins (set at Halloween)
Stalin’s Ghost by Martin Cruz Smith
Widows of Eastwick by John Updike
Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult
October 25, 2009
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