What David discovers at Salter Farm is equally enthralling and disturbing, involving a local cult, taking advantage of those weaker than them. I will say now this will be a long review, I wanted to review each short story separately and then the collection as a whole. Wow! this story set up the atmosphere nicely. I was apprehensive the entire time and it gave me chills. That end was so good, creepy but good. This was definitely my top favorite story. I was screaming without a sound, on and on, and at last the scream escaped, shrill and piercing. An unbroken cry. But it was not from my mouth. is the Victorian Woman not done yet. are we not tired. have we not gotten bored. has collective fatigue not set in. what is it that is keeping people doing all this please i would love to know

Now eight bestselling, award-winning authors - master storytellers of the sinister and the macabre - bring this time-honoured tradition to vivid life in a spellbinding collection of new and original haunted tales.En términos generales ha sido un gran descubrimiento, hay que admitir que es una gran compilación de relatos cuyo eje radica en los fantasmas o situaciones paranormales. L'unico aspetto positivo è che nella parte finale sono menzionati i vari romanzi degli autori, il che mi ha invogliato a ingrossare la mia WL dei romanzi gotici. thwaite’s tenant – this was the first point at which i was like, oh, wow, there has been no thought on the part of these authors going into the material they’re working with (Victorian Woman Disease like completely sincerely) or the discursive terrain that their setting envelops. boring attempt at so-called ‘feminism’ (isn’t it so hard to be a bourgeois victorian woman?) and a gross, thoughtless deployment of sex work. really set the tone for the rest of the anthology so maybe i’ll redact my comment about this selection having no structure to it whatsoever. also just poorly executed, as ever. Los ocho relatos , como el título indica, tienen que ver con apariciones, fantasmas, eventos paranormales... A mí no me han suscitado nada de terror más allá del misterio que hay a lo largo del libro. La verdad es que en casi todos los relatos la atmósfera está muy bien conseguida. No os voy a hablar detalladamente de cada relato, pero sí os voy a contar por encima mis sensaciones. Interessante per l’ambientazione e i riferimenti al mondo degli scacchi. L’idea della casa appartenuta a un grande maestro con tutti i dettagli del caso ha reso questo racconto particolare, ma la narrazione è stata piuttosto prevedibile, così come il finale. Carino, ma come prima novella poteva essere meglio.

For me one of the standout features is the inclusion of two stories inspired by the island of St. Kilda, These narratives transport us to a remote and hauntingly beautiful corner of the world, adding an extra layer of mystery to the anthology. This was an interesting story, to say the least. It is definitely atmospheric but I didn't like it as much as I liked the other stories.Victor is married to Mabel and he is out to prove himself by unearthing a rare fossil they head to Lyme Regis. By going to Lyme Regis, he is also fulfilling his promise to Mabel. When they get there, the innkeeper says that the hotel is haunted by the selkies. Victor gets engrossed in his work and unearths a complete skeleton of a rare monster but no one is there to celebrate that victory with him as his victory is laced with a young child's death. Unless I am mistaken, they all seem to be set in the past - 18th and 19th Century and early 20th. These times seem to lend themselves well to the eery and the mysterious. But now it's made me wonder what a short horror story like this but set in modern times would be like. I can't see it being the same. With electricity and lights and the Internet and mobile phones, that doesn't sound nearly as mysterious as candlelight and the wind and eery silences.

The Hanging of the Greens by Andrew Michael Hurley Hurley does write this genre well, and his books have always had my full attention, but as to the chilling quality of them, I am not so sure. He does like to include religion, which few of his contemporaries do. So, interesting, but nothing special. 3/5All of the short stories in this anthology are winners, in my eyes, but Host by Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Salt Miracles by Natasha Pulley, The Master of the House by Stuart Taunton, and Widows Walk by Susan Stokes-Chapman all sent genuine shivers down my spine. Raccolta di racconti che mi aveva catturata fin da subito per il suo theme (che è stato ovviamente copiato), Natale con i fantasmi si rivela un buon romanzo con cui trascorrere le oscure notti invernali. Sebbene lo spirito natalizio si percepisca assai poco (se non del tutto assente in alcuni), di spiriti ce ne sono fin troppi: alcuni amichevoli, altri un po’ meno e altri fin troppo appiccicosi.