Eight Ghosts

As it is a tradition on this blog during the Countdown to Halloween, I am starting again to give scary reading suggestions. Tonight, it is Eight Ghosts: The English Heritage Book of New Ghost Stories. So as the title says, you have here eight ghost stories. New ghost stories, but they read like classical, if not old fashioned, ghost stories. You will not find gore, machete wielding maniac or devil clown here. These stories are all set on a real-life English Heritage site. If the authors are all contemporary, if the stories are often also contemporary, their settings belong to a bygone era of ghost stories. And as a bonus on top of the short stories themselves, this book contains a section telling the history of each featured site, with mentions of "real" alleged hauntings in them. To make this book an even more appropriate read for the spooky season, one of the stories is set on Halloween. All in all, Eight Ghosts will give you a few frights while being educational. One day, I intend to reread the stories where they are set.