Ammie, Come Home

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Summary: the most terrifying ghost story I have ever read
Review: Ammie Come Home is fantastic---a book you won't be able to put down and one which will ensure that you sleep with the lights on for at least a week!

Ruth is a widow living in Georgetown when her college-age niece Sara comes to stay. Ruth reluctantly agrees to host a dinner party/seance which will feature a famous medium. Ruth and her guests who include Sara's anthropology professor, Pat, do not believe in ghosts but the seance stirs up old memories in the house.

Sara becomes possessed by the spirit of Ammie---a young girl who lived in the house during the Revolutionary War. Michael's depiction of Sara---and her possession by Ammie---are done amazingly well. Ammie is as real a character as Sara and yet the changes which occur in Sara are subtle.

Ammie has taken over Sara for a reason---and Sara, Ruth, Pat and Sara's boyfriend, Bruce, all must work to discover who Ammie is, what she wants and whether they can help her.

As always, Michaels does a great job. The characters are real and the absurd situation in which they find themselves also seems surprisingly real. This is probably what makes the story so chilling---seeing ordinary lives disrupted by the extraordinary.

Buy this! You will not regret it!

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Summary: Classic supernatural mystery
Review: Barbara Michaels is a master, and this book is one of her finest.

Ruth Bennett invites her niece Sara to stay at her historic Georgetown house. Starting with a seance, the past apears to manifest through Sara. Is she going mad, or is it something else? Sara's boyfriend Bruce leads an investigation into the house's history - and finds the key to understanding what is happening to, and through, Sara.

This is a classic ghost story, that I have read and reread over the years. Very enjoyable book.

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Summary: A spine tingling ghost storie that makes you believe
Review: It has been a long time since I have read Ammie, Come Home, but it is a book I will never forget. Barbara Michaels draws interesting characters in vivid reality, and then slowly introduces the ghostly presences that threaten their lives.

In many tales, writers have a hard time making you believe...Barbara Michaels does it so well this book lingers in my mind decades after I read it.