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They beckon you to a twilight world of flesh and spirit....

They are dream-spinners weaving macabre nightmares...phantasmic voices whispering words of dread...spectral visions taunting you into an early grave. They are ghosts, young and ancient, mischievous and maniacal, glimmering and ghoulish. Now, journey with Peter Straub, one of today's best ghost storytellers, as he and fourteen other premier peddlers of gooseflesh take you into the shivery haunts of Ghosts.

Beginning with Straub's "Hunger," a magnificent story about the cravings of the restless dead, here are stories never to be read past nightfall .stories of an unholy seductress gorging on men's souls...a Hollywood B moviemaker unexpectedly cast in the role of ghostwriter...a psychic investigator who unearths far more than he bargained for...and a burned out novelist desperately seeking the phantom muses of his childhood....

Rating : - Ghosts and Spirits and Shades ... Oh My!
After a lengthy (41 page) Introduction by Peter Straub (worth the read, its actually a story), the shivering tales begin. The book is divided into five separate categories: Dark, The Kids, Mom And Dad, Cold, and Our Work. Like many of the collections from Horror Writer's Association, the stories here may introduce you to a new favorite talent or give you a fresh tale from a chosen author.

Table Of Contents:
Hunger: An Introduction by Peter Straub
DARK:
Styx by Norman Partridge
Jubilee by Kathe Koja
Not Far From Here by Tim Smith
THE KIDS:
Momma Ghost by Alan Rodgers
Daddy's Girl by Gordon R. Ross
Coventry Carol by Chet Williamson
MOM AND DAD:
And He Who Mourns by David B. Silva
His Mother's Hands by Clark Perry
COLD:
Bill Smith's Sleigh Ride by Tyson Blue
Sotto Voce by Lawrence Greenberg
A Real Babe by Brad Linaweaver
OUR WORK:
Looking For Mr. Flip by Thomas F. Monteleone
Present In Spirit by Don D'Ammassa
The Wedding Party by Paul M. Sammon

My favorites include 'Not Far From Here' by Tim Smith, a tale of ghostly, ghastly psychopaths with a strange tie-in to the ether world; the strange haunting of young parents by their lost child in 'Coventry Carol' by Chet Williamson; who is haunting who in Clark Perry's 'His Mothers Hands'; a childhood terror-toy haunts Jack in 'Looking For Mr. Flip' written by Thomas F. Monteleon; the corporate downfall of James Nicholson as the people he's stepped on in the past come back to him in 'Present In Spirit' by Don D'Ammassa; will you recognize mysterious Albert and Mr. Z. in Paul M. Sammon's nineteenth century horror tale called 'The Wedding Party'?

What I love about the collections from Horror Writers Association is that your often get the unexpected in their stories. Though telling of ghosts or witches or vampires, there's always one or two that will stretch your imagination to its limits while still molding to the form of the theme. Many authors mean many views, and Ghosts doesn't disappoint in bringing us ghosts from the early 1900's to the most modern of hauntings. If you like a good ghost collection, be sure to pick this one up. Enjoy!