The Castleton Files: Five Adventures

Will Castleton #0.1-0.5

by David Bain

In this volume, "slightly psychic" U.S. Marshal and paranormal detective Will 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.

Genres: Horror

Audible Audio

First published March 27, 2012

Reviews

[Maria Schneider · Rating 4 out of 5]

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.

[Michele bookloverforever · Rating 3 out of 5]

liked the short story collection better than the novel.