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Summary: Pleasant Nightmares!
Review: This is one of those rare books you simply can't put down. Tamara Thorne is in top form with this Erotic Chiller! If you've never heard of this amazing author it's time to take Tamara 101 by reading this frightening tale of ghastly murder and black magic.
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Summary: Dolls Dolls
Review: This was my first Tamara Book. I enjoyed the creepy ghosts and gotta admit..the sex parts were good too. The whole Idea of buying and old haunted house so you can write one in...I thought was great!
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Summary: Right there with Bad Things.
Review: Tamara Thorne, Haunted (Pinnacle, 1995)I'm crazy about Tamara Thorne. It's refreshing (to say the least) to find a writer of good old-fashioned haunted house novels these days; this is probably the first (aside from Thorne's own Bad Things) I've come across, chronologically, since Paula Trachtman published Disturb Not the Dream some twenty years ago, that doesn't have some sort of post-atomic ecological message to shove in my face or some sort of hardboiled-mystery natural explanation. (We'll conveniently overlook Barbara Michaels. After all, she writes romances, delicious as they are, not horror novels.) And that, alone, is enough reason for me to automatically slap above-average status on Miz Thorne's every word. The only problem, really, and I will be the first to say this may be my fault for reading two of Thorne's novels so close together, is that the words seem remarkably similar between Haunted and Bad Things. We have a single (male) parent moving to California with child(ren) who are sure (we know, as the author winks at us) to be placed in the path of great danger, though the parent doesn't know this. There's a friend at home who, at a moment of crisis, must come out to assist with everything, and the child(ren) has/ve an obsession with taking the car and the Visa card into town (because, of course, we're out in the middle of nowhere). The ghosties, ghoulies, and long-leggetie beasties can't be seen by the rest of us most of the time, but they materialize in order to convince the townsfolk they do exist, thanks to some mechanism that forces them farther into our reality. Etc. Formula? Absolutely. It's switch-the-characters as much as Barbara Cartland. But Thorne is a far finer writer than Cartland (or Danielle Steel and Nora Roberts, Cartland's living heirs o the multibillion dollar romance market), and at least the characters being switched out are not carbon copies of one another, despite their similar situations. The differences in character from book to book are enough to keep the reader going, which is necessary through some of the book's slower points. (The protagonist here is a writer, and Thorne tells us he's always somewhat nervous through the first half of his books, then towards the end starts writing obsessively, often finishing them in a few weeks. Haunted, it should surprise no one, is paced exactly this way.) Thorne does Bad Things one better here, with the inclusion of a nasty erotic side to this particular ghost that one couldn't introduce to the Green Man in Bad Things (at least, not without ludicrous chuckles from the audience). This is balanced out by the somewhat slower plot development in the first half of the novel, but once it takes off, it most certainly takes off. The book becomes more compelling as each page turns, until the last hundred pages, which demand to be devoured in one gulp. Haunted and Bad Things are pretty equal in quality, and Haunted only gets half a star less because I read it second. If you like one, you'll probably like the other. Just don't read them back to back, or the similarities will throw you off. *** 1/2
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Summary: Awesome horror story!!!
Review: This is an awesome book. Next to The Shining, this is my next favorite horror novel. I couldn't put it down!! Tamara Thorne has earned a new customer. I can't wait to go out and buy more of her books. Hopefully they're just as good.
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Summary: When You Do That Voodoo That You Do So Well!
Review: Bestselling horror writer/amateur parapsychologist David Masters and his teenage daughter, Amber, move for the summer into California's notorious "Body House," the site of two horrendous massacres and the occasional odd death over the past eighty years. Masters is setting his latest novel in such a place, and wants the atmosphere of the infamous house for inspiration and publicity. The gossipy locals consider him a fool, and after a while he has to wonder if they're right - the house is haunted by its owner, Lizzie Baudey, a turn of the century madame, and her evil daughter Christabel, who was raised in absentia by a voodoo priest who taught her the black arts. Lizzie's former lover, a sea captain, also wanders about the deserted lighthouse at odd hours, minus his head. Things start out well enough, with only the occasional bothersome cold spot around, but then Amber finds two of Christabel's legendary missing dolls, and all hell starts breaking loose... Another well-written winner by the inexplicably all-but-unknown Ms. Thorne, which benefits most from her usual sympathetic and enjoyable characters. Its only real problem is the precise nature of the haunting, which now and then is a little confusing, and a bit of a slow start. But the suspense is steady, the horror pretty gory, and the finale scary and exciting. Haunted is not a classic in the sense of Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, Matheson's Hell House or King's The Shining, but that's only because of its more formulaically dramatic streamlining. It is, however, only about one rung beneath those famous pieces, and certainly will satisfy ghost story or haunted house lovers. Thorne is an author to watch.
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Summary: A great gothic classic !!...
Review: Moody, chilling, soulful, creepy, sad, haunting and spellbinding. A great novel in the true classical sense.
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Summary: Ghost World
Review: What a great ghost/haunted house story! I liked the combination of horror, romance, love and loss. I was hooked from page one and read the book in 3 days! I am looking forward to reading more of Tamara Thorne and her vast array of spooks and creeps. You won't be sorry with this book!
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Summary: A five star ghost story
Review: This is one of the best ghost stories I've read to date!! I had trouble putting this book down. It keeps you on edge right to the very end!! I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to read a good ghost story. I can't wait to read her next book when it comes out!!
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Summary: Haunted
Review: One of the greatest ghost stories I've ever read. I was fascinated by how this great author draws the reader into the story. I had trouble putting this book down. I was fully engrossed in this book. A must read. I felt like I was part of the story. I'm currently reading "Candle Bay" by this author, and I can't wait for her next book to come out. A great ghost story. Prepare to be scared!! 5 stars!!
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Summary: wow I actually stayed up all night reading till the end
Review: from the begining to the end the level of suspense, and horror, is amazing, I actually found myself thinking afterward how did Tamara come up with this. It is absolutely one of the best books I have ever read on hauntings, I recomend this book to be read but definitely not along. Excellent writer, excellent book, fantastic
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