In these stories - including an all-new 12,000-word novella, unavaliable anywhere else - "slightly psychic" detective Will Castleton (DEATH SIGHT: A WILL CASTLETON NOVEL) takes on ghosts, hardcore criminals, his girlfriend and his relationship to reality itself.
From a race against time to save a woman's life during a tropical storm, to a struggle for a child's lost soul in the snowy badlands...
From battling a betrayed ghost's wrath in a storm along the Lake Michigan shoreline to vying with vampiric creatures eating at the fabric of a suburban Chicago family's reality...
Will Castleton uses any means necessary, physical or supernatural, to see justice done.
Featuring an all-new 12,000-word novella, "Homeward Devils" - Will and his girlfriend Samantha are visiting Will's hometown of Green River, Michigan. But going home can bring you face to face with the ghosts of the past - as well as old enemies of a more physical nature. And then Will has a vision that someone will die before the night is over... It's not just angels who look homeward...
THE CASTLETON FILES collects the following stories:
Island Ghosts The Bridge (available separately) Samantha (available separately) Homeward Devils (a new 12,000-word novella unavailable anywhere else) Nighteyes (available separately)
Some excellent ghost stories in this book, all involving Will Castleton, a psychic investigator. These stories are pretty dark, but don't really cross the line into full-blown horror (which I don't read). Lots of good characters to like, good atmosphere. I appreciated how each story was different. After you get some idea of what Will can and can't do, you expect to start seeing similarities between the stories, but in this case, there aren't many. Each one has a fresh perspective.
Great read for anyone who likes ghost stories. Probably a tad darker than Frank Tuttle's work (Dead Man's Rain, Cadaver Client) and nearly as good with atmospheric build-up.