In this short story the author, William Meike, channels famed author Bram Stoker as he tells his new tale at the gathering of an author’s club in London during the 19th century. And by channeling this author, Mr. Meike, attempts to capture all aspect Stoker’s writing style, from the structure/voice of story’s narrative to that of the characters, and seems to handle the mimicry quite well/5(42). · In The Ghost Club, William Meikle does something quite audacious. He presents a collection of ghostly short stories attributed to several Victorian authors such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Anton Chekhov, Helena P. Blavatsky, and Henry James. Some of the hauntings in this collection are subtle, while others have high body counts/5. Come, join us for dinner and a story. 'The Ghost Club is a massively ambitious anthology of stories 'by' classic authors as imagined by the extremely talented William Meikle. Massively entertaining, too.' - Simon Clark, author of the award winning The Night of the Triffids.
Whisper Down the Lane by Clay McLeod Chapman. For those fascinated by the Satanic Panic, you'll appreciate that this new horror novel is based on a true crime story: the McMartin preschool trials. Whisper Down the Lane is set in part in the s, during the height of the Satanic Panic. At the time, Sean was a 5-year-old boy who told a lie. "The Mezzotint" is a short ghost story by the British author M.R. James. It was first published in as part of the anthology Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. The story concerns a man named Williams who acquires pictures of buildings for the library of an unnamed British university. A London art dealer sends him a mezzotint which depicts a large English country house. At first, Williams is. Sweet William's Ghost (Child 77, Roud 50) is an English Ballad and folk song which exists in many lyrical variations and musical arrangements. Early known printings of the song include Allan Ramsay's The Tea-Table Miscellany in and Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry in Percy believed that the last two stanzas of the version he published were later additions, but that.
"William Meikle is an audacious writer! In The Ghost Club he takes on the personalities of literary icons Bram Stoker, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jules Verne and the like and creates stories they might have told, mimicking their voices and writing styles. And he makes that work!. In this, "In the House of the Dead," Meikle channels Bram Stoker as he writes a ghost story about a mother and unborn infant who have passed away too soon. In the Ghost Club shorts, author William Meikle recreates a fictitious, rediscovered collection of stories written Bram Stoker, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Henry James, as they convene at the turn-of-the-century Ghost Club to share their supernatural tales. Come, join us for dinner and a story. 'The Ghost Club is a massively ambitious anthology of stories 'by' classic authors as imagined by the extremely talented William Meikle. Massively entertaining, too.' - Simon Clark, author of the award winning The Night of the Triffids.
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