Ghostly Lights Return (Haunted Lights)

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Summary: Horrors of Lonely Lighthouses!
Review: These stories of the macabre - ghosts, phantoms, vampires, gruesome thoughts called up by extreme issolation - are set in the lighthouses of the Great Lakes. Each story is followed by a crystal clear description of the lighthouse in it's geographical and historic context. The comforting reality of fact is like a night light shining through torturous dream images! I liked "Dear Diary", based on actual keeper diary entries, "Going Home" a touching prose poem on the watery fate of The Edmund Fitzgerald, and "The Head" for its unmitigated gore!

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Summary: Not What You Think
Review: This is one of the biggest disappointments in my journeys through the world of books! First, I thought from what I had read that this would be, by and large, a series of stories about the lighthouses of the Great Lakes. WRONG! These stories are the sick wanderings of the author's mind, and except for the story of the Edmund Fitzgerald, there is almost nothing informative or inspiring or uplifting about the author's fictitious fill-ins after offering a thumb-nail sketch of each lighthouse. I had originally planned to buy several of these books to give as gifts - think heavens I read them first - and now I'd recommend them for the trash barrel.

Rating:
Summary: Not What You Think
Review: This is one of the biggest disappointments in my journeys through the world of books! First, I thought from what I had read that this would be, by and large, a series of stories about the lighthouses of the Great Lakes. WRONG! These stories are the sick wanderings of the author's mind, and except for the story of the Edmund Fitzgerald, there is almost nothing informative or inspiring or uplifting about the author's fictitious fill-ins after offering a thumb-nail sketch of each lighthouse. I had originally planned to buy several of these books to give as gifts - think heavens I read them first - and now I'd recommend them for the trash barrel.