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The Ghost Chaser's Daughter
What Dark Forces prowl, just Beyond The Grave, ever vigilant for an opportunity to return to the Land of The Living?
Footsteps follow the reader into the night as The Ghost Chaser's Daughter, Emily Hill, takes you into her other world in this anthology of twenty-four short stories.
Footsteps follow the reader into the night as The Ghost Chaser's Daughter, Emily Hill, takes you into her other world in this anthology of twenty-four short stories.
194 pages, Paperback
First published August 30, 2012
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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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