What time of year could be better to read ghost stories? There’s a chill in the air, the nights are getting longer, and things are starting to go bumpy at night. It is not surprising that Halloween comes at this time of the year, and natural stories are associated with thisghost night, but did you know the ghost stories even at the time They are said to have been handed down on Christmas Eve and around Christmas Eve nighttime fires in Victorian England in fin-de-siècle America. A major part of the Victorian Christmas tradition is the reading of ghost stories. Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol is perhaps the best and most famous example of this tradition. You still don’t believe me? Then look at the fourth line of this classic Christmas carol “Wonderful Time” (emphasis added);
There will be guest parties;
Marshmallows for toasting;
And they were silent in the snow.
Fearful expired stories
And the glories of the stories of
Christmases are long, long ago.
2001 was the year when the concept was finally drilled into my head, I had heard it before, but it never hit home until I read Charles Palliser’s Unburied, which bills itself as “The Christmas Spirit of Victory”. Story.” So, without further ado, here are the 10 Best Ghost Stories I’ve Read. Save them for Halloween, for Christmas, read them on the beach in July for all I care. Just read and confirm. You get chills and goosebumps with every turn of the page:
1. Ancient Images by Ramsey Campbell (New York: TOR Books, 1989). The violent death of a colleague and its apparent cause – a sneaky copy of an old, never-released Karloff/Lugosi film. film editor Sandy Allan in the wake of the tragedies that have overtaken his production, he finds himself threatened by the power of protecting the ancient secrets of a more than 50-year-old film. Ramsey Campbell’s Ancient Images is a book that will keep the reader in the morning hours, looking at the shadows in the corners, daring to move them. Atmosphere plays a big part in this book which relies heavily on the reader being so engrossed in the story that when things start to move out of the corners of the characters’ eyes and into the periphery of their vision, the reader can’t help it. they look down on their shoulders as well. It starts off a little slow, but once Sandy Allan starts hunting the Tower Fear, the story moves at a very fast pace and doesn’t let up until the very end. As I said, the air plays a heavy role in the mind of this book, and Campbell puts it in a dense setting, so much so that the book seems to come with its own storms of thunder and lightning. What I really loved about this story was the story that Campbell creates, not only the story of the Karloff/Lugosi film, but also the story of Redfield, who plays a large part not only of the plot of the film, but also of Campbell’s story. try to tell Campbell put the evidence to the page as Sandy investigates film history, and the connection with the Redfield family, there are some surviving scenes in Redfield Village most of which we have yet to reach. This is where the book’s heavy atmosphere comes into play, especially when it begins to delve into the sordid and macabre history of the town and its inhabitants. My only beef with Images is that while Campbell wraps everything up neatly at the end, it still remains somewhat ambiguous…although, I think more of it might be better. The best horror stories are often – in my opinion – the ones that leave the reader scratching their head at the end asking “Okay, now what just happened?” and Ramsey Campbell’s Ancient Images is such a story. But all things considered, Ancient Images strike a horror story … the mane of a true beggar. Don’t read this too late night, the hairs will stand on your back. of your neck, and you will never be able to sleep.
2. A Bag of Goodies by Stephen King (Leipzig: Simon & Schuster, 1998). “I hope Bam of Goodies gave you at least one more awake night. Sorry ’bout that I It’s the way. It gave me one or two, and I’m afraid to go down to the cell, and start knocking. From King May 1999 Four years after the sudden death of his wife, forty-year-old novelist Michael Noonan is still unable to write, and haunted by vivid dreams of western Maine summer sunsets, Mike reluctantly returns to a private lake. There he finds his beloved Yankee town in the hands of a money-grubber, Max Devore, whose vengeful purpose is to have his three-year-old granddaughter, Kyra, taken away from her widowed and poor mother, Mattie, while Mike is drawn into a conflict between Mattie and Kyra, while falling in love with both He is drawn into the mystery of Sarah Ridet, now a place of ghostly visits and escaping terrors. What forces are at stake here – and what do Mike Noonan want? I found this to be one of King’s scariest modern books. The scene on the cellar steps is one of the most intense he ever wrote. I’m glad we don’t have a room that I always go down in! King describes Bones as a “loving story” and it sure is. It is also an open and honest British comedy, and echoes heavily in Daphne du Maurier’s classic Rebecca, but instead of a bad woman mistaken for good (as in Rebecca >) in Good , a good woman – the recently deceased Jo Noonan – whose recently revealed secret life causes her husband to doubt his complete trust. Max Devorus’ revenge for money also challenges Rebecca‘s Maxim de Winter. Bones was King’s first German story from Pet Sematary and Derry and revisited. Castle Rock. Bag of Goodies boasts an ancient curse, a transparent mind series, greed and horrific paranormal activity, as well as two of the most memorable villains the King has ever blessed us with. Again, as in Dark Half, Misery, “Secret Windows, Secret Garden,” Despair, Tommyknockers, Shining, etc., etc. The king made his own genius as a brilliant writer of mysteries. One of my favorite aspects of Bag of Bones are the little “insides” that King gives, with repeated references to Thad Beaumont (and, of course, George Stark) from King’s The Dark Half< /i>, and William “Big Bill” Denbrough ofIt. Both characters – like Mike Noonan in Oss – are successful writers, and because King Noonan compares himself to these two, he gives Bones an odd credibility by mocking him. deposition of The Half Dark and It. In addition, adding to that sense of credibility, a cameo appearance by Ralph (and incidentally mentioned) Lois Roberts, one of the main characters of King’s Insomnia, a novel about the unfortunate town of Derry; The obscure score lake also links to Gerald’s Game, and several others, linking Bam Good to Claiborne Pains, Tommyknockers, < Necessary Things, and "The Dog of the Sun" (in the Four Past Middles). Michael Noonan’s account of the process of writing and publishing it to the world, one wonders how much of King himself is in Noonan, and how much of Noonan’s experiences are autobiographical. According to King’s “Bag of Goodness I have everything I know about marriage, lust, and larus,” and the last 300 or so pages The books contain some of King’s best writing in modern times. Bas Bonorum is an incredible ghost story that, at the risk of a bad pun, will keep the reader engaged even after the last page. This one is perfect for cold nights.
3. Good Offerings by Robert Marasco (New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1973). The Rolfes – Ben, wife Marian, son David and aunt Elizabeth – the charming family of New York summer doldrums in their queen trying to escape the room. They find a beautiful old country buffet in old on Long Island – quiet, secluded, with a pool and private beach – perfect. to the right of men. But their “perfect” summer house hides terrors beyond their imaginations. During the long summer the house becomes a nightmare from which there seems to be no escape. For all those people who felt that their home and possessions were more than themselves. on the contrary; for those who love a good home/property; and even for those readers who simply enjoy the reported fun, Robert Marasco’s 1973 novel Burnt Offered will be a real find. This was Marasco’s first novel in a miserable, bland life; He came out with only two titles – People’s Play, a drama, in 1970, and Parlor Games, a Gothic-style mystery, in 1979 – before succumbing to lung cancer in 1998, aged 62. The true loss, if holy offerings of any art, is the meaning of man. In this work we met Ben and Marian Rolfe, a charming and ordinary couple from Queens, who, with their 8-year-old son David and aging aunt Elizabeth in tow, broke up an aging mansion on the North Fork of Long Island. This item is being released for an incredibly low price of $900 for the entire summer, but in one way: the mother’s pension will remain. in the cellar for a long time, but it will remain out of sight and will be quite low maintenance. Marasco then begins to gently turn the screws, and before long, they start to become horrible, or do they? Mariana becomes obsessed with the house, while her hair sings quickly; Ben begins to physically abuse his son excessively and suffer morbid hallucinations; and Elizabeth, once active, begins to age at a terrible rate. And this is the start of a wonderful story. Marasco writes very well; It is hard for me to believe that this is the first novel. Yes, the beginning is sometimes guilty of the writer’s fault, such as sometimes sloppy writing and some instances of grammar and punctuation (granted, these are the later fault of the editor Marasci). But what excels is the beautifully executed, real dialogue; It has rarely been read better. Perhaps I should also mention here that this book no less luminaries than Stephen King was selected for inclusion in Stephen Jones and Kim Newman’s excellent volume Horror: 100 Best Books (which is where I first heard about the book). It is easy to see the effect which Bontus oblata had on the king similarly mourning Splendens, which proceeded four years later. Although perhaps not as chilling as King’s novel, or Shirley Jackson’s classicHaunting of Hill House (but then how many books are there?), Holocaumata can also hold their own in an august company. The people at Richard Matheson’s Hell House have done, or continue to do, no greater horror than Rolfe. Sweet are the two Rolfes, and the reader is rooting for them, and hopes that he will come through their judgments well. But the reptilian, Allardyce mansion living forces ranged against them, the odds are certainly not in their favor! Anyway, let me just say that I highly recommend this book to any and all interested readers.
4. Coldheart Canyon: A Hollywood Story Clive Barker (Leipzig: HarperTorch, 2001). A popular action film‘s hero needs to heal after a surgery that went horribly wrong. His agent was keenly interested in finding him in such a luxurious, forgotten mansion high in the Hollywood Hills. But the chief owner of the mansion was a beautiful woman given to every pleasure, and her terrible father was not yet dead. There are shadows and monsters haunting the cold Distress, where nothing is forbidden. This is only my second fight in a world written by Clive Barker (before Cabalyears, and I saw two or three Hellraiser moves), but it is fair to say I was quite impressed. Coldheart Canyon is a fierce indictment (and crushing tribute) of Hollywood Babylon, depicted through Barker’s glorious imagination as a nexus of human and inhuman evil, where carnal pursuits corrupt the soul. There is also one story of ghosts dismembering, spooky and suspenseful, and also (I understand) the departure of Barker in that here, as never before, he mixes the fantastic with the real, the genre. The book is long to begin with, the first 150 to 200 pages are excruciatingly slow, but once the book finds its pace, it doesn’t let up. Barker entices readers to jump into a fantastical world of popular monsters that roam the hills of today’s Tinseltown. His masterful descriptions of this world and the pathological behavior that occurs in it provide an eerie realism, compelling the reader to go further. This is, in essence, a 686-page supermarket table, the kind of story that would happen if Billy Wilder had done Sunset Boulevard as a German silent film, with a healthy dose of Edgar Allan Poe and Nikolai Gogol cast as a mod. However, all this, I think, is the major flaw of this book, which is about 200 pages too long. But because of these, Barker cannot let go of the story, and drags it on too long, which follows in almost four endings past what one would naturally consider to be the end. I read some reviews of Coldheart Canyon online, and the general consensus seemed to be that Coldheart Canyon is a weak offering when compared to its predecessors Barker’s works include Imajica, The Damnation Game and Weaveworld. My reaction to this is that if Coldheart Canyon pales in comparison to Barker’s previous books, I can’t dig them.
5. Saint Story by Peter Straub (Leipzig: Simon & Schuster, 1979). Everyone is afraid of a cold hand around the heart, pulling it to the skin and sending blood rushing. Everyone was afraid of that. But no one was so afraid of the terrible men and women of Milburn. He is called by supernatural power to answer for supernatural sin. Doomed to live in the evil heart of darkness … a ghost story. This is the first Peter Straub book I’ve read, and – to be perfectly honest – I had a very difficult time getting through it. The beginning, the first 150 pages or so, are surprisingly difficult to read. They are thick, and seem to take the reader nowhere in particular. It seemed to me that Straub was saying “I have a story to tell and I’m going to tell it at my own pace” and I’m not going to give you the good stuff; Don’t scare you until I’m good and ready!” And it scares us! When I got over that hump, and I started on the back of nine books, I raced in, and some of the scariest scenes I’ve ever read. Be careful not to interviews with Georgios Scalis standing watch over his barn in the stormy night. > I had never been so effective before.) I was a little disappointed in everything when I started the Santo Story, but I was impressed by the time I was done.
6. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Irving of Vienna (Sketchbook). classic (for your convenience, a “stand-alone-story” was published separately outside of Irving’s Sketchbook. I tell you, you have never read a story better told, better made; and a story more exciting and more daring than “The Story sleepy hollow I know haunted house stories, and… for me of all the scariest of his works. Claustrophobic and intense, King pulls no punches in dealing with the themes of alcoholism, marital and child abuse and — of course — an ancient ghost story. The story is an occupation that affects the reader on a roller coaster ride. King’s is excellent in this new writing and book as a five-part tragedy (the first was ideas as a story, ” preface,” “closing day,” “wasp’s nest,” “snowbound,” and “matters of life and death.” The dichotomy of Jack’s character is particularly fascinating…the fake love he feels for his wife and son, and yet his uncontrollable descent into rage and the carnage that Inspectus puts in. My first exposure to Splendens was the MAD Magazine movie parody Stanley Kubrick. I got that book when I was in seventh grade, and I read it the first summer while my family was vacationing at . I hardly ever read late at night.. i>, I could not read it until late last night. It is truly the scariest book I have ever read, and it is certainly the most terrifying of the King’s works. Just remember, when I’m on my way… I’ll be out of Room #217.
8. “The Turn of the Screw” by Henry James (The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction. New York: Bantam Books, 1981. 1-104). “The story held us around the fire, quite breathless, but in addition to the familiar notes that it was a wonderful story on Christmas Eve in old house he must be, I do not remember any comment being made, until someone happened to note the only chance that such a visit from a child had occurred” (3). “Verse Robbery” is not only an incredible ghost story, but also a first-rate psychological thriller and a truly masterful story. I don’t want to give away too much of the story so as not to spoil the “game” for future readers. So I will say everything except “snail” for the cold and dark autumn or winter night (as it is a suitable time for such stories).
9. “The Wendigo” by Algernon Blackwood (The Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood. New York: Dover, 1973. 158-207). My first introduction to Algernon Blackwood came from casually referring to him in King Stephen’s Danse Macabre, where he mentions short story. Wendigo.” I’ll admit that I became somewhat obsessed with finding a copy of Blackwood’s short stories, and finally came upon this volume in the $1.00 clearance section at Half Price Books. I immediately skimmed through it and now, after finally reading it almost a year after finding it, I feel like it’s one the best $1.09 I spent on literary miseducation. I have to say, even though I found this book difficult to get into, these are some of the scariest stories I’ve ever read. “The Wendigo” is an absolutely amazing story of terror and the supernatural. It also tells the story of the legendary wendigo in the mainstream consciousness and around campfires in North America. This is Algernon Blackwood’s stellar collection, and the payoff is worth reading to find examples of his stories.
10. “The Yellow wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (The Yellow wallpaper and Other WritingsIs it too late to fight the fury? In the late summer days, an unnamed woman passes through her intimate thoughts =”https://e-info.vn/tag/short-story”>short story several years ago – in high school, if I remember correctly, and I did a lot of it, except that This one is told in a strange way. Now, I find that Andrea Perkins is a genius. In “The Yellow Wallpaper” there was a color that stood for insanity as a result of the pressures of society It is clear that she was not to be successful or strong. Whether she is crazy or not is another story altogether. It could be interpreted as a very different thing than the actual thing, but … then … maybe it isn’t. There are so many eyes to this story that it goes into all of them completely pages. This story could be feminism. It can be a narrative of the suppression of medical society, or the suppression of artistic creativity (as the narrator’s husband does not like to write). It is also told about the taboos, misunderstandings and stigmas that society has placed on those with mental illnesses. This story will give any reader goosebumps. I highly recommend; you will not be confused.
