Ghostly Lights: Great Lakes Lighthouse Tales of Terror

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Summary: Great Lakes Lighthouse Tales of Terror
Review: 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.

Rating:
Summary: Great Lakes Lighthouse Tales of Terror
Review: 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.