Oh wow. This is like words you say about someone after they drop dead. I'm not dropping dead, am I?
I very much appreciate this because we all love to hear nice things. This was a very nice thing. Thank you.
The Year of Cemetery Dance 2018
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I very much appreciate this because we all love to hear nice things. This was a very nice thing. Thank you.
Cemetery Dance is a wonderful small publishing house. These are all books I have bought from them over the years, but have never read .
I get them, put them on the shelf and think about reading them and then don't. So, to get myself to read them, I made it my New Years Resolution and then I challenged myself with all you as witnesses to read the damn things. I have put a nice dent in my collection.
You are always thinking of others and have always lifted me up -- as a friend, fellow mod, woman and as your elder.
Uh, wait! where are you going? Get back here! Don't make me pull this board over!
I don't think so...have somebody poke you with a stick and let us know...
You are welcome and unlike 99.9% of the things I throw out on this board this actually is heartfelt...
On a side note...
How reformed is "reformed"???
Yeah that's more like me.
36. FOUR GHOSTS
by Ray Garton, Joe Hill, James A. Moore and Peter Straub
About the Book:
"Four Ghosts is a special anthology of ghost stories by four of our favorite authors."
My Thoughts:
It says that the photo for this cover is done by iStock Photo/Pgiam. Does this mean it's just a random picture that gets recycled on numerous books? I hope not. I do like this snapshot, and I would hate to think it was just grabbed off of some clipart program.
The interior art for each story was done by Russell Dickerson. Creepy, shadowy things they are.
My book is signed by all four authors and is numbered, so I guess it's worth a nice little chunk of change.
NOTE TO BUYERS: If I die, stay tuned for my kid's to sell it in a New York minute! Perhaps a New Jersey second.
Ray Garton starts us off and I quickly thought, 'oh hell, here we go again.' Sex and Violence figure very prominently in this story -- graphic stuff. But guess what? It had to be there. Like a guy's ball sack drawing up, my ovaries did a significant shrinky dink move every time the "c" word was used, but I always feel this way about that word. It's me, not you Ray. This story's use of sex and violence in such a graphic way needed to be there for what this character was doing, for what he was trying to accomplish. But, he played this game one too many times and "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" -- especially a dead one. This would be my stand-out story in the collection.
I have read Joe Hill's contribution in the past and it was worth my time again as I had forgotten the details. I think his writing is just as good as dad's, sometimes even better. He knows the tricks of the trade to keep his writing interesting, accessible and innovative.
The next story by James A. Moore dealt with loss and the guilt of would've should've could'ves -- sort of a self "water boarding" we all do from time to time as waves of guilt wash over us to the point it drives us mad. Sometimes, a person can drown themselves in those perceived failures and can't take it anymore.
James A. Moore had a poignant piece of writing in his story, Spirits, I will quote:
"Listen, grieving is a painful, solitary thing. You can share it, but you can only share so much before the people around you are crushed by the weight of it. I don't know if that makes sense, but there it is. If I'd let all of my grief out at once I'd have drowned the people around me in my sorrows or they would have run for the hills to avoid it."
I have definitely drowned a number of my friends. Sorry about that. And thank you for being there.
And last but not least, my poor Petuh. Well, I liked this one Peter Straub! It bordered on being a bit padded from time to time, but the story drove the writing and I was interested in the interconnected vignettes jumping years. You didn't gross me out Mr. Straub! but you still did your job!
by Ray Garton, Joe Hill, James A. Moore and Peter Straub
About the Book:
"Four Ghosts is a special anthology of ghost stories by four of our favorite authors."
My Thoughts:
It says that the photo for this cover is done by iStock Photo/Pgiam. Does this mean it's just a random picture that gets recycled on numerous books? I hope not. I do like this snapshot, and I would hate to think it was just grabbed off of some clipart program.
The interior art for each story was done by Russell Dickerson. Creepy, shadowy things they are.
My book is signed by all four authors and is numbered, so I guess it's worth a nice little chunk of change.
NOTE TO BUYERS: If I die, stay tuned for my kid's to sell it in a New York minute! Perhaps a New Jersey second.
Ray Garton starts us off and I quickly thought, 'oh hell, here we go again.' Sex and Violence figure very prominently in this story -- graphic stuff. But guess what? It had to be there. Like a guy's ball sack drawing up, my ovaries did a significant shrinky dink move every time the "c" word was used, but I always feel this way about that word. It's me, not you Ray. This story's use of sex and violence in such a graphic way needed to be there for what this character was doing, for what he was trying to accomplish. But, he played this game one too many times and "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" -- especially a dead one. This would be my stand-out story in the collection.
I have read Joe Hill's contribution in the past and it was worth my time again as I had forgotten the details. I think his writing is just as good as dad's, sometimes even better. He knows the tricks of the trade to keep his writing interesting, accessible and innovative.
The next story by James A. Moore dealt with loss and the guilt of would've should've could'ves -- sort of a self "water boarding" we all do from time to time as waves of guilt wash over us to the point it drives us mad. Sometimes, a person can drown themselves in those perceived failures and can't take it anymore.
James A. Moore had a poignant piece of writing in his story, Spirits, I will quote:
"Listen, grieving is a painful, solitary thing. You can share it, but you can only share so much before the people around you are crushed by the weight of it. I don't know if that makes sense, but there it is. If I'd let all of my grief out at once I'd have drowned the people around me in my sorrows or they would have run for the hills to avoid it."
I have definitely drowned a number of my friends. Sorry about that. And thank you for being there.
And last but not least, my poor Petuh. Well, I liked this one Peter Straub! It bordered on being a bit padded from time to time, but the story drove the writing and I was interested in the interconnected vignettes jumping years. You didn't gross me out Mr. Straub! but you still did your job!
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I don't think so...have somebody poke you with a stick and let us know...
You are welcome and unlike 99.9% of the things I throw out on this board this actually is heartfelt...
On a side note...
How reformed is "reformed"???
Yeah that's more like me.
pretty damned reformed.
Yay, Petuh!!
Ohhhhhh SUNNNNNNNYYY!!!! Do you rent your stick?I don't think so...have somebody poke you with a stick and let us know...
You are welcome and unlike 99.9% of the things I throw out on this board this actually is heartfelt...
On a side note...
How reformed is "reformed"???
Yeah that's more like me.
She is the resident stick poker...
Going to leave that there...
This is a serious thread.
bwahahaha!. Okay. We'll go with that.
Oh! I forgot to say, James A. Moore had a poignant piece of writing in his story, Spirits, I will quote:
"Listen, grieving is a painful, solitary thing. You can share it, but you can only share so much before the people around you are crushed by the weight of it. I don't know if that makes sense, but there it is. If I'd let all of my grief out at once I'd have drowned the people around me in my sorrows or they would have run for the hills to avoid it."
I have definitely drowned a number of my friends. Sorry about that. And thank you for being there.
"Listen, grieving is a painful, solitary thing. You can share it, but you can only share so much before the people around you are crushed by the weight of it. I don't know if that makes sense, but there it is. If I'd let all of my grief out at once I'd have drowned the people around me in my sorrows or they would have run for the hills to avoid it."
I have definitely drowned a number of my friends. Sorry about that. And thank you for being there.
....she is so wrong to be as self-effacing as she is....the girl has a beautiful soul and a bright mind....
You are always thinking of others and have always lifted me up -- as a friend, fellow mod, woman and as your elder.
Uh, wait! where are you going? Get back here! Don't make me pull this board over!
Arghhhhh, stop trying to hug me! Let me out.... Maaaaaarsha! 36. FOUR GHOSTS
by Ray Garton, Joe Hill, James A. Moore and Peter Straub
About the Book:
"Four Ghosts is a special anthology of ghost stories by four of our favorite authors."
My Thoughts:
It says that the photo for this cover is done by iStock Photo/Pgiam. Does this mean it's just a random picture that gets recycled on numerous books? I hope not. I do like this snapshot, and I would hate to think it was just grabbed off of some clipart program.
The interior art for each story was done by Russell Dickerson. Creepy, shadowy things they are.
My book is signed by all four authors and is numbered, so I guess it's worth a nice little chunk of change.
NOTE TO BUYERS: If I die, stay tuned for my kid's to sell it in a New York minute! Perhaps a New Jersey second.
Ray Garton starts us off and I quickly thought, 'oh hell, here we go again.' Sex and Violence figure very prominently in this story -- graphic stuff. But guess what? It had to be there. Like a guy's ball sack drawing up, my ovaries did a significant shrinky dink move every time the "c" word was used, but I always feel this way about that word. It's me, not you Ray. This story's use of sex and violence in such a graphic way needed to be there for what this character was doing, for what he was trying to accomplish. But, he played this game one too many times and "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" -- especially a dead one. This would be my stand-out story in the collection.
I have read Joe Hill's contribution in the past and it was worth my time again as I had forgotten the details. I think his writing is just as good as dad's, sometimes even better. He knows the tricks of the trade to keep his writing interesting, accessible and innovative.
The next story by James A. Moore dealt with loss and the guilt of would've should've could'ves -- sort of a self "water boarding" we all do from time to time as waves of guilt wash over us to the point it drives us mad. Sometimes, a person can drown themselves in those perceived failures and can't take it anymore.
James A. Moore had a poignant piece of writing in his story, Spirits, I will quote:
"Listen, grieving is a painful, solitary thing. You can share it, but you can only share so much before the people around you are crushed by the weight of it. I don't know if that makes sense, but there it is. If I'd let all of my grief out at once I'd have drowned the people around me in my sorrows or they would have run for the hills to avoid it."
I have definitely drowned a number of my friends. Sorry about that. And thank you for being there.
And last but not least, my poor Petuh. Well, I liked this one Peter Straub! It bordered on being a bit padded from time to time, but the story drove the writing and I was interested in the interconnected vignettes jumping years. You didn't gross me out Mr. Straub! but you still did your job!
Oh heck.... hahahahahaha, the Ray Garton paragraph! Oh my.... Absolutely! It's just wrong, totally wrong.
(See what I did there Deej?
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Exactly this. (((Deej)))
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This one I would like to read!Next up:
I'll check to see if the library has it - thanks
I did see that. I totally did.
Absolutely! It's just wrong, totally wrong.
(See what I did there Deej?
