So, the book, Getting Lucky, got me thinking, and since this is the best reader forum I know, I'm curious. How many ghost story fans are out there? I love the creepy ones, the ones that run a chill up my spine. Best ever: The Shining, by Stephen King. I will always remember Danny in the hallway of the old hotel when he hears the elevator start up. Freaked me out!
I've read a ton from the late 70's. The original Amityville Horror, stuff like that. I also like delving a little into disturbia with books like Sybil (read it, like, 3 times back in high school) and I read the whole VC Andrews series starting with Flowers In The Attic way back when.
So let me ask: Who can recommend a good ghost story? It can be romance or not, doesn't matter. Has Nocturne done any that are contemporary? I'm not crazy about historicals, but I had read Hope Tarr's Blaze, The Haunting, and really liked it.
What else is out there? Any favorites?
Lori
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Creepy stories
Ooooh, I love a good creepy story...the kind that makes you hide under the covers and shiver! I read Hope's story and liked it too, but the creepiest so far was The Tunnels, by Michelle Gagnon...t'was a goody.
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I love ghost stories!
I love ghost stories! Stephen King kinda creeps me out, so I haven't read any of his stuff in years. Ghost stories are definitely more appealing to me than vampire or werewolf stories. After the Silhouette Shadows line was canceled, I used to comb the thrift stores for those books.
The only ghost story i can
The only ghost story i can think of right now that i really enjoyed, was Whispers, by Erin Grady.
Kathy D
Not me. I have a too vivid
Not me. I have a too vivid imagination. I am THERE in the story with the protagonists and it's too scary for me.
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I'm addicted to Ghost Stories
I love for people to tell them to me so that I get shivers up my spine. My grandma has a great one about her best friend's father-in-law. She and my grandfather were there. So for books...
Fiction: Spirited Away by Cindy Miles....Loved this story! I also loved The Haunting but you already mentioned that. There's another Blaze author that was doing a series on a New Orleans family that helped spirits cross over that I really loved.
Nonfiction:Ghosts of the Carolinas by Nancy Roberts. South Carolina Ghosts by Nancy Roberts.
The first time I read a book by her, I think I was eight. I scared myself so badly that I had to sleep with the light on for a week. When you read her writing, its like you're in the room listening to her tell this person's story. I've read other true ghost story books, but hers are still the best.
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Ghost stories ......
I learned to like Steven King ... mostly because I'm not one to really watch a "horror" movie (too real) ... but I can read horror in a book .... so when everyone was talking about how awesome King was and I tried watching the movies but couldn't, I thought I'd give his books a try .... and I really like his style of writing ... VC Andrews too, those Flower in the Attic books were extremely good
as a genre .... I don't reach for them .... so I'm not really up on who's writing what or which one is the ultimate read ...... I'm not much of a paranormal reader either (though I promised myself that this year I would read some and see what's it's all about)
now ghost stories told around a camp fire or to the light of a flashlight when the power goes out .... well those I just adore! ...... esp. when kids are listening
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No ghost stories.
The covers for VC Andrews' books always scared me. I don't mind a ghost movie if I'm not alone in the house.
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Wow!
These recommendations are great, everyone! Thanks so much! I've got a birthday coming up and am adding to my Amazon.com wish list as we speak.
Micki, I don't know what it is about vampires and werewolves (or shapeshifters), but they just don't appeal to me like ghosts do, either. And the whole vampire thing has become such a cult lately, with all these rules on how they operate, it seems to be moving closer to sci-fi fantasy than horror. And I'd never heard of Silhouette Shadows. Is it sort of the former Nocturne?
Katherine, I definitely like Stephen King's horror more in book form than film. He's a fantastic storyteller, and his novellas are some of my favorites. In fact, when it comes to movies, I'm WAY particular in my taste. No slashers for me. They've got to be supernatural, like The Ring, or The Grudge. Plain old freaks who kill soo-stupid-to-live highschoolers? No thanks! LOL!
And Angel/Frenchie, there's a lot of century old Victorians where we life, and you couldn't pay me to live in one of them. I've seen too many ghost stories to live in an old creaky house. So yes, my fetish does come with a price!
Lori
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Yes, Silhouette Shadows ran
Yes, Silhouette Shadows ran from 1993-1996. Heather Graham Pozzessere, Maggie Shayne and Lindsay McKenna are some of the authors I remember.
I'll have to add to my TBR pile as well! LOL
Lori Borrill
My hubby is a big GhostHunters fan. As for me, I don't want to know if ghosts are real because then I would have to see one!
This is off-topic and probably a horrible sounding story. When my mom was passing away slowly from cancer we were getting silly with her. We told her if she wanted to come back and scare anybody make it Yvonne the youngest of us eight kids. And in the shower. No sightings yet...
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LOL
Oh, Angel, your family sounds like mine. When my father died, my sisters and I were wandering the cemetery waiting for the services to start. I kept running across these "headstones" only to discover they were sprinkler heads. And sure enough, like clockwork, my sister calls out very tongue in cheek, "Wow, this RainBird is sure a big family!"
All four of us started busting up, no doubt the funeral staff wondering what kind of crazy, heartless kids we were. But dad would have laughed, too.
Lori
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Lori
I love Victorians, so you can understand why I don't read ghost stories!
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Hi Lori,
I added a comment on my Getting Lucky blog but just in case you don't see it!!
Nora Roberts wrote four stories about the MacKade brothers. They live in an area where a Civil War battle was fought and there are ghosts on the property that are woven all through the 4 books. The books were published in 95 & 96 in Silhouette Intimate Moments & Special Edition lines. The ghosts were an intriguing part of the stories. You might be able to find some copies online. Can't remember if these have been rereleased. I've read them several times and love the stories & the brothers that no one thought would ever amount to anything! Good stories about bad boys!!
Have a great weekend. I'm looking forward to your book out next month.
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I like some ghost stories--especially when the ghosts are not too scary. But there are some that pull me in too much and I just can't read them. Stephan King is an author I just can't read for that reason--good author, I just can't read his books. Interesting topic.
Nancy
scary books give me nightmares
They really do. That's why I stopped reading Stephen King and Doon Koontz before I went to bed. There was this one King story--The Langoliers. Anyone read it? it was a novella, part of an anthology, I think. There was also a TV movie made of it, and both the book and film scared the daylights out of me!
The story was about people on an airplane who suddenly find the entire world has disappeared and these weirdo creatures are trying to eat the world. My lord! For weeks after, every time the house was a little too quiet I'd think the world was gone and have to call someone to make sure I wasn't going crazy...
And don't get me started on the Shining. Even thinking about it gets me creeped out. Nightmares for weeks thanks to that one.
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Leeanne - I can read the books, I can't watch the films
but it's the atmospheric music that gets me worst, so I've been known to watch them with no sound LOL
Of
course these days I watch TV about 0.00001% of the time and then
it's usually the kids cartoons - which can be seriously scary
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sadhbh, the music gets me too!
Honestly, I think the scary movie sound guys are totally underappreciated. Would Jaws have been as scary without that music? Honestly, every time I hear the creepy music start I sit there all tense, waiting for something horrible to happen. This is why I don't watch horror movies.
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Trust me, it freaks me out too....
but to me, that's like the rush people get from eating hot chili peppers or riding big roller coasters. I love sitting there going, OMGOMGOMG, then flying out of my seat when something happens. I just love it.
I think it's the same adrenaline rush people get from extreme sports, or things like skydiving. But if something goes wrong with my scary movie, I don't die. There's the difference.
Granted, I still pay a price. I'm a TOTAL chicken when it comes to the dark and can creep myself out pretty easily in highly innocuous situations. And no, I'll never be able to live in an old mansion.
Lori
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