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A carregar... Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories (1918)por Ambrose Bierce
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I read this way too fast and will have to go back to it, but I can't say that is a chore. This brief little morsel is well worth the read and is available free from several locations, including Project Gutenberg. Published in 1913 (the same year its author disappeared on the Mexican border), this volume collects several of Bierce's ghost stories, with a brief frame from Bierce that delights by wading into the science fiction end of the pool. The stories are repetitive, but the author's signature biting understatement is present throughout. The whole experience would probably be better if you stretch it out a bit, one story an evening, say, instead of gulping it down like I did. Highly recommended. ( ) This is a collection of ghost stories, most just three to six or seven pages long. In Bierce's ghost stories, there tends to be a really interesting set-up, a bit of a chilling ghostly sighting, then an anti-climactic ending. So you'll have a little town, a house that everyone knows is haunted, a person or pair of witnesses who see a ghost walking in and out the house, then a refusal to speak of it and that's the end. So many of the stories were of this formula that things got repetitive, yet it's Bierce, so it's still worthy. Aaarrrrgggghhhhh! Absolutely completely devoid of any life or interest. I'm sure that the conceits he used were, at the time, new and fresh and all that, but his writing style was awful and the conceits he did use now look quaint and old-fashioned (not in the good way). His ghost stories reminded me of the old hook hanging on the car door canard. As told by someone who didn't know how to tell a story. Blech. This review was written for LibraryThing Member Giveaways. I found this interesting. Not something I would generally read, but it was an LT member giveaway that looked good. It's a lovely edition and a short, quick, fascinating read. The stories are very short. I've not really come across this style before - halfway between fiction and non-fiction. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
This collection of short and chilling ghost stories was originally published in 1913 and is loosely organized into four categories: The Ways of Ghosts, including "An Arrest," in which a murderer is escorted back to jail by the prison guard he murdered to escape; Soldier Folk including "A Man with Two Lives," in which a man dead and buried returns to claim his belongings, Some Haunted Houses, including "The Other Lodgers," in which a man checks into what he believes is a hotel only to discover it is an abandoned hospital, and Mysterious Disappearances, including "The Difficulty of Crossing a Field," in which a man disappears in full view of witnesses while crossing a field. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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