TJ’s Reviews > Japanese Ghost Stories > Status Update

Rambling along without any building of tension, or even any significant scare.

Out of all that I’ve read so far, within the first story, 6 pages are of an actual ‘ghost’ story. Everything else is a separate story to invade them in some kind of boring flowery narrative device. I don’t mind the ‘story within a story’ structure, as long as it’s done right. Doing it in, what I hope is only in, the first ‘short’ story in a short story anthology book is not the way to do it.