Isaac Asimov's Ghosts (Ace Science Fiction)

Name: Isaac Asimov's Ghosts
Rating: 2.00 (1 reviews)

Gardner Dozois (Editor) and Sheila Williams (Editor)

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Isaac Asimov's Ghosts (Ace Science Fiction)

Gardner Dozois (Editor) and Sheila Williams (Editor)

1 rating • 1 review • 1 shelved

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ISBN10 0441002544
ISBN13 9780441002542
Publish Date 1 August 1995
Publish Status Active
Publish Country US
Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
Imprint Ace Books

Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
Pages 225
Language English

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Cameron Trost

Written on Jun 23, 2013

The problem with ghost story collections is that the reader knows that every story is going to have something ghostly about it. In order to compensate for this disadvantage in the "surprise department", the stories need to have a really clever twist and lead the reader down unexpected passages. Failing this, they need to be examples of beautifully chilling prose.

With this in mind, only two of the tales in this collection stood out for me and sent a shiver up my spine. The Visitors by Jack Dann and The July Ward by Sharon N. Farber.