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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Great Lakes Lighthouse Tales of Terror,
By E. A. Lovitt "starmoth" (Gladwin, MI USA) - See all my reviews (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER) (TOP 100 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
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This review is from: Ghostly Lights: Great Lakes Lighthouse Tales of Terror (Haunted Lights) (Paperback)
The best stories in "Great Lakes Lighthouse Tales of Terror" have a kernel of truth in them. They are about ghostly lighthouse keepers and/or drowned sailors.The worst stories are ghostly bodice-rippers that the author made up whole-cloth. I'm not certain why they were included in the book, except that the phantasmagoric romances are set in or near a lighthouse. The author tells a very energetic story, sequined with multiple adjectives and adverbs. The characters are "groping and gasping," "tormented by a disturbing past," "trying to calm the banging of [their] hearts." They hear "ominous, raspy panting," feel "a ripping, a searing pain," see "loathsome demons lurch[ing] forward," and "detestable fiends...lips twisted by death in a ghastly grin." Characters don't just say their lines. They pant, bray, screech, and whimper them. "Great Lakes Lighthouse Tales of Terror" contains twenty-one imaginative tales, told in a very `in your face' style. I would have preferred a subtler telling that left something to my own imagination. |
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Ghostly Lights: Great Lakes Lighthouse Tales of Terror (Haunted Lights) by Annick Hivert-Carthew (Paperback - September 1, 1998)
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