Ghostwriting

by Eric Brown

Over the course of a career spanning twenty five years, Eric Brown has written just a handful of horror and ghost stories – and all of them are collected here. They range from the gentle, psychological chiller “The House” to the more overtly fantastical horror of “Li Ketsuwan”, from the contemporary science fiction of “The Memory of Joy” to the almost-mainstream of “The Man Who Never Read Novels”. What they have in common is a concern for character and gripping story-telling. Ghostwriting is Eric brown at his humane and compelling best.


“British writing with a deft, understated wonderful”—New Scientist


“Eric Brown has an enviable talent for writing stories which are the essence of modern science fiction and yet show a passionate concern for the human predicament and human values”—Bob Shaw


“SF infused with a cosmopolitan and literary sensibility”—Paul McAuley

Genres: Horror

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First published March 11, 2012

About the author

Eric Brown was a British science fiction author and Guardian critic.

Reviews

[Caitlin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Eric Brown is a good writer, and this is a fine collection of short stories, just not what I was looking for when I bought it. Brown is not primarily a horror writer, something he admits himself in the introduction, and it shows.

They're good short stories, but not if you want a creepy ghost story,

[Rowan MacBean · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars

I really liked this collection. I'm a big fan of stories that are ambiguous about whether what's happening is psychological or supernatural, and there are several such stories here. "The Memory of Joy" stands out as both my favorite and least favorite, depending on my mood at any given moment.