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The Ghost Chaser's Daughter
WAR! WITCHES! SORCERERS! SPIES!
In this collection of short stories, Emily Hill introduces us to the most despicable characters whose greed, avarice, and opportunism tangles them in such a way as to make the outcomes of their situations... downright delightful!
In Paperback for Halloween 2012: A Full Anthology! 24-short story collection
In eBook format for Halloween: The newest from The Ghost Chaser's Daughter, Emily Hill, including:
Checkmate! How feverishly brutal can one marriage become? Charles and Clare, an elderly Seattle couple, provide us with the answer to this riddle in Checkmate! Charles, with his failing eyesight and frustrating deafness parses with Clare, his beauty-queen wife of past, as she plots her escape from the richly appointed manor which has become her prison. Checkmate! When is a marriage worth more than a thirty-six dollar check, but less than a successful chess move?
Lightning Strikes: Poor Dennis Sheridan, Florida-native. Considering what he has been through he does not need a suspicious officer of the law on his doorstep asking about his wife of twenty-four years; particularly as he brushes the dirt from her grave off of his hands.
Grove of Terror: Civil War Union Officer Speck is on a mission to save the slaves along the Carolina Ghost Coast - an admirable mission. That is, he's on an admirable mission until he learns that buried treasure lies within yards of where a battle is to take place the next morning between the Confederate line and General Gilmore's 62nd Ohio regiment. The favorite of author Emily Hill, she shares Grove of Terror with her readers once again in case they haven't had the pleasure of Officer Speck's company.
To Kill Ivan Gorsky: Written as a salute to the Hungarian revolution attempt of October 1956. Who is Ivan Gorsky and why would even angels want him dead? Tour the Budapest Opera House and spend the night in the company of this Russian intelligence agent as he faces performance hall angels, and his own devils. You'll soon see why the mission was always, "To Kill Ivan Gorsky".
Chunya, And The Hungarian Witch: "Oh! She's so ugly!" And, at this exclamation from neighbors, the new mother beamed at her newborn daughter. Learn why - from the beginning of all folklore and legends - little girls from the village of ́Opusztaszer are so. . . "Chunya!" This folklore tale, delivered straight from Transylvania, features the vanity of a forest witch and the revenge of a Hungarian sorcerer.
This five-story eBook collection IS INCLUDED in the PAPERBACK Edition of The Ghost Chaser's Daughter - a full anthology of Ms. Hill's legends and folklore collection.
In this collection of short stories, Emily Hill introduces us to the most despicable characters whose greed, avarice, and opportunism tangles them in such a way as to make the outcomes of their situations... downright delightful!
In Paperback for Halloween 2012: A Full Anthology! 24-short story collection
In eBook format for Halloween: The newest from The Ghost Chaser's Daughter, Emily Hill, including:
Checkmate! How feverishly brutal can one marriage become? Charles and Clare, an elderly Seattle couple, provide us with the answer to this riddle in Checkmate! Charles, with his failing eyesight and frustrating deafness parses with Clare, his beauty-queen wife of past, as she plots her escape from the richly appointed manor which has become her prison. Checkmate! When is a marriage worth more than a thirty-six dollar check, but less than a successful chess move?
Lightning Strikes: Poor Dennis Sheridan, Florida-native. Considering what he has been through he does not need a suspicious officer of the law on his doorstep asking about his wife of twenty-four years; particularly as he brushes the dirt from her grave off of his hands.
Grove of Terror: Civil War Union Officer Speck is on a mission to save the slaves along the Carolina Ghost Coast - an admirable mission. That is, he's on an admirable mission until he learns that buried treasure lies within yards of where a battle is to take place the next morning between the Confederate line and General Gilmore's 62nd Ohio regiment. The favorite of author Emily Hill, she shares Grove of Terror with her readers once again in case they haven't had the pleasure of Officer Speck's company.
To Kill Ivan Gorsky: Written as a salute to the Hungarian revolution attempt of October 1956. Who is Ivan Gorsky and why would even angels want him dead? Tour the Budapest Opera House and spend the night in the company of this Russian intelligence agent as he faces performance hall angels, and his own devils. You'll soon see why the mission was always, "To Kill Ivan Gorsky".
Chunya, And The Hungarian Witch: "Oh! She's so ugly!" And, at this exclamation from neighbors, the new mother beamed at her newborn daughter. Learn why - from the beginning of all folklore and legends - little girls from the village of ́Opusztaszer are so. . . "Chunya!" This folklore tale, delivered straight from Transylvania, features the vanity of a forest witch and the revenge of a Hungarian sorcerer.
This five-story eBook collection IS INCLUDED in the PAPERBACK Edition of The Ghost Chaser's Daughter - a full anthology of Ms. Hill's legends and folklore collection.
50 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 30, 2012
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About the author
Emily Hill
118 books49 followers2012 NaNoWriMo badge winner for "Ghosts of White Raven Estate" featuring 1853 New Orleans during the height of the hoodoo era and reign of Madame Laveau.
2020 NaNoWriMo badge winner for my COVID Quarantine project, "The Man Who Loved Too Much" a true love story (of sorts) featuring all the vagaries of narcissistic love.
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Me:
A 25-year career in news media relations preceded my achievements as an author; which was highlighted by an Amazon 2011-12 (10-month) best seller for "The Ghost Chaser's Daughter".
I'm a fiction writer drawn to the dark side of life, whether it be skitterings behind the veil, or the stir of smoldering passions gone awry.
My literary influences include Gillian Flynn, Patricia Highsmith, and Margaret Atwood.
~*~ Thank you for visiting my author's page ~*~
2020 NaNoWriMo badge winner for my COVID Quarantine project, "The Man Who Loved Too Much" a true love story (of sorts) featuring all the vagaries of narcissistic love.
~ ~ ~
Me:
A 25-year career in news media relations preceded my achievements as an author; which was highlighted by an Amazon 2011-12 (10-month) best seller for "The Ghost Chaser's Daughter".
I'm a fiction writer drawn to the dark side of life, whether it be skitterings behind the veil, or the stir of smoldering passions gone awry.
My literary influences include Gillian Flynn, Patricia Highsmith, and Margaret Atwood.
~*~ Thank you for visiting my author's page ~*~
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September 11, 2013
I was raised by a horror fan. While the other kids in my kindergarten class were being read CINDERELLA or BLACK BEAUTY, my mom gave us chapters from THE AMITYVILLE HORROR and Peter Straub's GHOST STORY. In our house, a new Stephen King novel was a cause for celebration...and fights over who would get her hands on it first. These days I don't read as much horror as I used to. Contemporary horror novels seem to have taken the same unfortunate turn as horror movies--too much blood and body organs and nearly no atmosphere or suspense.
I am happy to report that Emily Hill provides plenty of atmosphere AND suspense in THE GHOST CHASER'S DAUGHTER, her collection of twenty-four ghost stories. The anthology offers an entertaining mix of thinly disguised autobiography, inventive fiction, and new versions of traditional tales. Hill's ghosts are as varied and individual as the people and places they haunt. A husband lost tragically young returns to check on his grown daughter and her children. A lost little girl seeks friendship with a living child. Memories of war and loss haunt a smart hotel in New Orleans' French Quarter.
One thing all of Hill's stories share is a strong sense of place--the foggy and overcast Pacific Northwest; the weighty, jasmine-scented air of New Orleans; Tuscon's bleached-bone outer suburbs. Hill's settings feel so real, the reader can't help but believe everything else she says happened there. This is an author who knows how to build suspense, how the turning of a cut-glass door knob in a dimly lit room creates more dread than any chainsaw-wielding psychotic. It is in these small, understated evocations of the "otherworldly" that Hill succeeds in terrifying and delighting us.
If you like your chills the old-fashioned way--more ghostly groans and less gore--this is the book for you.
I am happy to report that Emily Hill provides plenty of atmosphere AND suspense in THE GHOST CHASER'S DAUGHTER, her collection of twenty-four ghost stories. The anthology offers an entertaining mix of thinly disguised autobiography, inventive fiction, and new versions of traditional tales. Hill's ghosts are as varied and individual as the people and places they haunt. A husband lost tragically young returns to check on his grown daughter and her children. A lost little girl seeks friendship with a living child. Memories of war and loss haunt a smart hotel in New Orleans' French Quarter.
One thing all of Hill's stories share is a strong sense of place--the foggy and overcast Pacific Northwest; the weighty, jasmine-scented air of New Orleans; Tuscon's bleached-bone outer suburbs. Hill's settings feel so real, the reader can't help but believe everything else she says happened there. This is an author who knows how to build suspense, how the turning of a cut-glass door knob in a dimly lit room creates more dread than any chainsaw-wielding psychotic. It is in these small, understated evocations of the "otherworldly" that Hill succeeds in terrifying and delighting us.
If you like your chills the old-fashioned way--more ghostly groans and less gore--this is the book for you.
June 2, 2018
It was entertaining. I would have liked to read more on the 14th short story, I think that story could have some possibility of being a full on novel and a good one if it was done right.
November 25, 2012
Excellent read, the stories in the book seem to be based on real life experiences. If you like stories of the paranormal you'll love this book.
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