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.
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