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Date Posted: 13:10:07 10/30/02 Wed
Author: Moira
Subject: Re: Read
In reply to: Goth 's message, "Read" on 16:04:30 10/20/02 Sun

There are many good ghost novels/stories out there... My personal favourite thus far was Ghosts by Noel Hynd; although it's fiction, most aspects of it could be real, which is something I find that most modern authors either ignore or miss. Stephen King's Bag of Bones was also quite good, although I can't compare it to any of his others, as I have not yet read them.

Lately, I've been reading a lot of Gothic-style novels-- this does not refer to Goths; it's one of the earliest forms of novel writing, which have fairly creepy overtones and usually deal with a ghost (think: the atmosphere of Edgar Allen Poe.) The famous early Gothics include Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, The Castle of Otranto, Dracula, Frankenstein, and novels by Mrs Radcliffe. However, there are a few modern authors who write in this style, and my personal favourite is Barbara Michaels. She has written some to be like early Gothics, set in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries, but most of her works are contemporary in setting. The ones I would recommend the most are Houses of Stone, The Crying Child (which is out of print, but can be found in most libraries,) House of Many Shadows, and a trilogy which consists of Ammie Come Home, Shattered Silk, and Stitches in Time. Really, I'd recommend anything she's written, but those are my personal picks.

For grittier modern novels with a psychic bent, try the following novels by Kay Hooper: Stealing Shadows, Hiding in the Shadows, Out of the Shadows, Touching Evil, and Whisper of Evil. Some of her earlier novels are also more Gothic in overtone, such as Finding Laura, Haunting Rachel, and After Caroline.

Happy reading!

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