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True Ghost Stories (True Adventure Stories) 3 reviews
Paul Dowswell, Tony Allan
Usborne Books, 2003
Kids eat this stuff up!
+ Very well written.
I am a third grade teacher and every year the children in my class beg for "scary" stories for read aloud time. Well, this year I did some searching for something beyond Goosebumps and the like (which I find to be rather poor literature) and this book has been a hit! Be warned, however, it will ...
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Dark Eyes On America: The Novels Of Joyce Carol Oates
Gavin Cologne-Brookes
Louisiana State University Press, 2005
Joyce Carol Oates’s unhesitating and prodigious exploration of genre, topic, and style has made her an inevitable but elusive subject for critics and scholars. Though Oates’s national reputation has fluctuated since her first work appeared in the 1960s, one thing can be agreed: Oates is not just America’s most extraordinary woman of letters but as significant an American writer as any of her ...
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Love Ghost6 reviews
Miki Itô, Takahashi Shinji
Tokyo Shock, 2006
Very cool storyline
+ 3 ½ + Stars: Eerie and Effective Teen Drama/Thriller...
+ Childhood Memories Of Love And Regret: A Ghost Story!
After reading many of reviews concerning this movie, I was more than intrigued to check out myself. I'm glad that I did. I don't usually watch movies with a romantic paranormal twist to it, but this one held my attention from start to finish. What makes it different from the rest is that you have ...
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Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural 6 reviews
Tor Books, 2007
An excellent assortment of dark tales guaranteed to make the reader shudder
+ More, Please.
+ Chilling
+ An excellent anthology in every way
+ Publishers Weekly starred review
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Vintage: A Ghost Story20 reviews
Lethe Press, 2008
BEAUTIFUL and HAUNTING, A MUST READ :)
+ A great first love story
+ Would Recommend
+ Vintage: A Ghost Story by Steve Berman
+ Read it, now!
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Northern Gothic: A Novella7 reviews
Nick Mamatas
Soft Skull Press, 2001
Beautiful, tough, and disturbing
+ Vivid, Fast Paced Read...
Nick Mamatas infuses this "weird tale" that intersects New York's Civil War Draft Riots with a contemporary gay black man's life in Greenwich Village with a smart, and clearly politicized viewpoint. The inexorable play of events seems pitiless on the surface, but the subtly creeping horror works so ...
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Sensational Knowledge: Embodying Culture through Japanese Dance (Music Culture) 1 review
Tomie Hahn
Wesleyan, 2007
A valuable effort
An actor is able to express, with movement, snowflakes falling within the chill of winter and to an audience who will empathise despite the performance taking place in the middle of summer! I am reading Hahn's book in an attempt to appreciate more fully the "Gei" or art of traditional Japanese ...
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Tragedy at Devils Hollow: And Other Kentucky Ghost Stories5 reviews
Michael Paul Henson
Overmountain Press, 2000
GHOSTS IN KENTUCKY
+ My Favorite Book. Ever.
+ Excellent!
+ The best ghost story book I've read.
+ GREAT BOOK, GREAT STORIES
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Beloved 87 reviews
Toni Morrison
Vintage, 2004
Raw & Powerful
+ Oh My God! Are You Kidding Me?
Toni's Morrison's Beloved is a hard, frustrating, and emotionally draining piece of literary art. Saying this, her prose is written like something I've never read. She throws you in the middle of the narrative and does not tell you why her characters are saying or acting like they are. It is a ...
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The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton 9 reviews
Edith Wharton
Scribner, 1997
A timeless treasure of tales
+ This book needs to come with a disclaimer!
+ A Great Collection of Scary Stories, and a Great Cover
+ Delayed Impact
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Haunted Christmas: Ghost Stories3 reviews
Jo-Anne Christensen
Lone Pine Publishing, 2002
Christmas fun
+ haunted christmas ghost stories
This is a nice little collection of ghostly stories to read aloud at the fireplace during Christmas Eve as you roast the chestnuts or simply get ready for Christmas day. This is the second volume of a two volume set but you don't need to read the first book to greatly enjoy this volume.
I don't ...
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Wild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway12 reviews
Joyce Carol Oates
Ecco, 2008
Sad Nights
+ Beautifully Done
+ Wild nights--and last days
+ Oates at her virtuosic best!
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Japanese Ghosts and Demons: Art of the Supernatural6 reviews
Stephen Addiss
George Braziller, 2001
Gorgeous book AND excellent research
+ The finest volume on the subject in English
+ Japanese Ghosts and Demons
+ One of the best books available on Japanese supernatural
+ a rich feast, both visually and intellectually
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13 Scary Ghost Stories1 review
Marianne Carus
Scholastic Paperbacks, 2002
Easy reader - Interesting
This book has an easy reading level, probably was written for middle or high school studends. However, the book contains wonderful classic tales from different ethnic backgrounds and will be a fun (although short) book to enjoy. I would reccommend this book, but it can be read in just one day.
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When the Ghost Screams: True Stories of Victims Who Haunt20 reviews
Leslie Rule
Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2006
When Ghosts Scream
+ When the Ghost Screams, Leslie Rule listens...
+ Fantastic book of ghost encounters!
+ True stories told
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The Shining613 reviews
Stephen King
Pocket, 2002
Absolutely enjoyable!
+ Interesting Book
+ The Shining
+ Classic King!
+ Intense and frightening
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The Tomie Collection6 reviews
Tomie Collection
Bci / Eclipse, 2006
Tomie... the girl who never dies!
+ Much bang for your BUCK!
+ A great buy for Tomie fans!
These movies are great! This is about a girl named Tomie. She will never die. She never dies.
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Japanese Fairy Tales1 review
Tuttle Publishing, 2007
A Child's Treasury of Japanese Fairy Tales
Originally published in 1903, Yei Theodora Ozaki's translation of Sadanami Sanjin's collection of Japanese fairy tales has been the introduction of many a young child into the legends and fables of old Japan across the years. Definitely not a scholarly reference or valuable research tool for ...
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Ghost Story112 reviews
Peter Straub
Pocket, 1989
The only novel that has genuinely scared me
+ Solid
This book was extremely reminiscent of Stephen King's "IT". Apart from the mythological origins of the evil creatures, I would almost say that they were of the same species. With that being said, I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It scared the living daylights out of me. I honestly had trouble ...
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Wild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway12 reviews
Joyce Carol Oates
Ecco, 2008
Sad Nights
+ Beautifully Done
+ Wild nights--and last days
+ Oates at her virtuosic best!
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