How do you define a “ghost story”? In Jennifer McMahon’s THE INVITED, a
How do you define a “ghost story”? In Jennifer McMahon’s THE INVITED, a Vermont couple DIYs their dream house, only to discover the property has a dark and bloody past…thus proving the Poltergeist rule that new haunted houses are always scarier than old ones. But ghost stories don’t always involve murder and mayhem. In HAUNTING PARIS by Mamta Chaudhry, the narrator is a ghost - the spirit of pianist Sylvie’s departed husband, who left behind a tangle of questions with answers lost in the chaos of WWII Paris. HAUNTING PARIS is a mystery, but it’s also a story of love, grief, and family - over which the tormented history of Paris hangs like a specter. Old cities are full of ghosts, aren’t they? Deirdre Bair, in PARISIAN LIVES, tells the story about her time writing the biographies of Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, and makes me wonder: is the act of reading a deceased writer sometimes the act of conjuring a ghost? And then, of course, there’s the “ghost in the machine” (remember that X-Files episode?): In Joanna Kavenna’s ZED, a global tech corporation has a monopoly on daily life. Its omniscient algorithms know exactly what we think and want before we do - until one day, things go suddenly and violently awry…So how do you define a ghost story? And what do you think makes us love them so much? -- source link
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