This was a short week at the universtiy, Thursday adn Friday being Fall Break. That meant I didn’t spend those days in a car. Although I did do some driving for a few hours today.
Rather than continue with the next auciobook in the Fleet of Worlds series, I have been listening to The Big Book of Ghost Stories edited by Otto Penzler. It’s been my experience that any anthology Pnzler is involved in will be a good one.
I haven’t gotten very far into it. It’s somewhere in the neighborhood of about forty hours. I’m familair with some of the stories I’ve heard so far, such as “The Phantom Rickshaw” by Rudyard Kipling and “How Fear Departed From the Long Gallery” by E. F. Benson, “At My Back I Always Hear” by Davide Morrell, and “August Heat” by W. F. Hzrvey. “Thing of Darkness” by G. G. Pendarves was what I listened to today. There are plenty of stories to go, and I’ll break the listening up into segments.
But with Halloween just over a week away, I thought this would be an appropriate thing to listen to until the end of the month. I’ll liten to more of them around Christmas.
Who are your favorite ghost story writers?
Hi
I guess I would be very predictable and pick M.R. James. Although on thing I like about James is that you never know what is coming or has come. It could just as easily be a demonic entity or strange beast as a human ghost.
Happy reading
Guy
It’s hard to go wrong with James.
I like James too, but I’ll also list Ramsey Campbell who is another admirer of James. His short-stories (not all about ghosts!) are genuine chillers. Start with his collection “Waking Nightmares.”
I keep trying to get into Campbell with mixed success. Some of his work I love. Some just doesn’t click with me. I’m going to give him another try sometime soon, if I can clear some of my TBR pile.