Our lives are digital, exposed and always-on. We track our friends and family wherever they go. We have millennia of knowledge at our fingertips.
We know everything about our world. But we know nothing about theirs.
We have changed, but our ghosts have not. They've simply adapted and innovated, found new channels to reach us. They inhabit our apps and wander the metaverse just as they haunt our homes and our memories, always seeking new ways to connect.
To live amongst us.
To remind us.
To tempt us.
To take their revenge.
These stories are not ours to tell. They are the stories of the dead - of those we've lost, loved, forgotten... and feared. Some are fiction. But some may not be.
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Black coat. Black dress. Black hat. Black car.- App-arition - A GHOST STORY (FOR NOW) FOR NOW
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(@JonathanCape, 5 October 2023, hardback, 320 pages, borrowed from @NACLibraries)
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I'm a fan of the author and a fan of ghost stories so really enjoyed Night Side of the River. The stories are split into themed sections such as Places and each section contains stories based around the themes and an anecdote about the author's own encounters with the strange and odd. I enjoyed all of the stories. I liked the fact that even though the themes were the same for the grouped stories, the stories were all different. I liked the range of ghosts the stories explore.