A Face at the Window

Rating:
Summary: Well written and atmospheric, but not very scary
Review: While reading "A face at the window" I kept trying to decide exactly what the story was trying to be. Was it a ghost story, an examination of a marraige, or the journal of one man's near descent into madness? I conclude it's all of these things, but I must say I found it rather lacking in the scare department. The main reason I choose a ghost story is for a few good frights, and I can't say I had any here. If a book purports to be a ghost story, then give me a chill here and there. Yes, this one had ghosts but they didn't do much other than occasionally beat up the narrator, and be generally annoying. I did find the cover art very intriguing and looked at the face often while reading, in fact I found that image far more frightening than the story. So overall not bad, but certainly not a stellar ghost story. For a much better thrill that is equally well written try "Ghosts" by Noel Hynd.

Rating:
Summary: Well written and atmospheric, but not very scary
Review: While reading "A face at the window" I kept trying to decide exactly what the story was trying to be. Was it a ghost story, an examination of a marraige, or the journal of one man's near descent into madness? I conclude it's all of these things, but I must say I found it rather lacking in the scare department. The main reason I choose a ghost story is for a few good frights, and I can't say I had any here. If a book purports to be a ghost story, then give me a chill here and there. Yes, this one had ghosts but they didn't do much other than occasionally beat up the narrator, and be generally annoying. I did find the cover art very intriguing and looked at the face often while reading, in fact I found that image far more frightening than the story. So overall not bad, but certainly not a stellar ghost story. For a much better thrill that is equally well written try "Ghosts" by Noel Hynd.