Thus begins a lifelong friendship that spans the length of the book, and the beginning of a horrifying adventure. Thanks to Jones and his partner’s quick thinking, they get Jeannine to a hospital where she has to make a sacrifice but, ultimately, keeps her life. Here we meet the main characters of Wood’s novel, teenager Jeannine LaRue who has, figuratively (and, arguably, literally) been to hell and back, and police officer and army veteran Curtis Jones. The book opens with a prologue of sorts, set in Louisiana two months after Hurricane Katrina, the devastation of the terrible storm still evident for all to see on the night of Halloween. His work has appeared in volume six of Crystal Lake Publishing’s Shallow Waters anthology series, and also online via SickLit Magazine and, as well as in the award-winning anthology Offbeat: Nine Spins on Song (Wicked Ink Books, 2017). Wood is a recent MFA graduate from Emerson College and writes speculative and dark thrillers. If you like tales of the supernatural, then we think that this selection will have something that appeals to everyone.“A very rewarding read, full of the mysterious and mystical history of the bayou-both established and original to Wood’s creation-as well as naturally secretive characters and action aplenty.”
From the poignant prose of Mary Rickert’s stories to the masterful storytelling styles in William Meikle’s The Ghost Club. Breukelaar’s The Bridge, to the gut-wrenching devastation of Gabino Iglesias’s Coyote Songs and Andrew Cull’s Remains. From the hopefulness and redemption of Keith Rosson’s Smoke City and J.S. The books in this bundle are purposefully wide-ranging in tone as well content. Stories that evoke emotions that range from terror to despair to hope. Entities that are invisible to the eye yet devastating to the soul. Haunted houses, haunted ships, haunted forests. The manifestation of ghosts in fiction is almost endless. Perhaps it is the ability of authors to make us feel the intensity of emotions strong enough to keep an entity tethered to this world that can be so intoxicating. I have long been drawn to tales of ghosts and hauntings: starting with early reads, such as Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, to later stories like Toni Morrison’s Beloved or Isabel Allende’s House of Spirits.įor me, the very wrongness of spirits that refuse to move on can somehow be so right. Most of us have wondered what happens after this life, and what better way to explore the infinite possibilities than by reading the imaginative takes writers have on the topic.
It isn’t a requirement to believe in ghosts to enjoy a good ghost story.
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