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Ghost Apples
Perchester, Oxfordshire is a town with secrets kept hidden for the sake of all who live there, a safe place where you can be sure your children will grow up with certain attitudes, mindful of the inheritance granted them. It has always been that way.
Secrets, though, have a way of coming out of the mist, of disturbing the balance of nature. When some of the town’s teenage population see a figure in that closing mist – when what they see drives them out of their minds – the nearby facility at Wendlefields becomes a staging post in a war between good and evil; between nature and nurture.
For jaded local journalist Simon Kinsey, it is a war that will see him pushed to his limit as he discovers his hometown is not all it seems and that the past very much plays a part in the present, from which the legend of Ghost Apples is born.
Secrets, though, have a way of coming out of the mist, of disturbing the balance of nature. When some of the town’s teenage population see a figure in that closing mist – when what they see drives them out of their minds – the nearby facility at Wendlefields becomes a staging post in a war between good and evil; between nature and nurture.
For jaded local journalist Simon Kinsey, it is a war that will see him pushed to his limit as he discovers his hometown is not all it seems and that the past very much plays a part in the present, from which the legend of Ghost Apples is born.
254 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 30, 2020
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May 31, 2021
A good horror story can boast shockingly descriptive prose that conjures vivid and terrifying images in the minds of its readers or revel in unsettling ambiguity that lets their imaginations fill in the blanks in the best and worst ways possible. An excellent horror story is able to do both.
Such is the case with Ghost Apples, Ian D. Hall's tale of both figurative and literal buried secrets set in a sleepy, insular town in Oxfordshire. Where the greatest danger might be the effect that living in such a place can have on the active minds of the young, the idealistic and the impressionable.
Reviewers will definitely draw comparisons to the works of James Herbert. While this is deserved I would also mention that Ghost Apples is very reminiscent of the works of Arthur Machen. Secretive and malicious, capital-E Evil buried beneath the earth of the picturesque countryside, unearthed and set loose by human cruelty that such beautiful locations can easily hide.
Ghost Apples is an excellent read, evocative, chilling and impactful. Keep an eye on Ian's work because if Ghost Apples is any indication there are many more excellent tales to come!
Such is the case with Ghost Apples, Ian D. Hall's tale of both figurative and literal buried secrets set in a sleepy, insular town in Oxfordshire. Where the greatest danger might be the effect that living in such a place can have on the active minds of the young, the idealistic and the impressionable.
Reviewers will definitely draw comparisons to the works of James Herbert. While this is deserved I would also mention that Ghost Apples is very reminiscent of the works of Arthur Machen. Secretive and malicious, capital-E Evil buried beneath the earth of the picturesque countryside, unearthed and set loose by human cruelty that such beautiful locations can easily hide.
Ghost Apples is an excellent read, evocative, chilling and impactful. Keep an eye on Ian's work because if Ghost Apples is any indication there are many more excellent tales to come!
February 27, 2021
Small town English horror at its finest
I went into this book not knowing what a Ghost Apple was... and now that I do know, it makes everything even more disturbing...
This book is great. It’s reminiscent of James Herbert, writing what he writes best. A Small town in rural England, everyone knows everyone else, they also know everyone else’s secrets.
Evils lurk in the darkness, and hides in plain sight.
I loved this book... and I will be reading more by this author.
I went into this book not knowing what a Ghost Apple was... and now that I do know, it makes everything even more disturbing...
This book is great. It’s reminiscent of James Herbert, writing what he writes best. A Small town in rural England, everyone knows everyone else, they also know everyone else’s secrets.
Evils lurk in the darkness, and hides in plain sight.
I loved this book... and I will be reading more by this author.
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