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It is odd that sometimes, I highly-anticipate a book and don't find that I like it. I added this book to my reading queue in 2014. They are all books I own physically, so I may have found this short story collection in 2014. I like the story I am reading now, which I believe is the fourth. The other two had the vagueness that I dislike about the short story genre and I hated the first: attempting to kill a seal!
— Oct 06, 2019 07:58AM
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My complaint is that most of the unpublished short stories that Scottish authors contributed for Giles Gordon's compilation, had nothing to do with spirits! Buyers of this title, mine thankfully second-hand: "Prevailing Spirits, A Book Of Scottish Ghost Stories" want ghost stories. That would be a wonderful collection to read in all of these authors' styles. They interpreted the parameters for grim, minor horror.
— Oct 08, 2019 04:12AM
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Not good. Most stories have nothing to do with spirits, as commissioned for this collection of first-time published short stories by Scottish folks. I love the settings and language but most of these writers aimed for grim or macabre. A few have an entity that might be a ghost but in those cases, a star has to be removed for animal harm! Why put that into already grim tones? I will appreciate the better stories.
— Oct 07, 2019 12:34PM
