Tuesday 12 May 2009

Chills in the Night

by Jackie Vivelo

I’ve just finished reading this book of eight, well, thoroughly chilling stories by Jackie Vivelo imaginatively named Chills in the Night: Tales That Will Haunt You. I bought it in a hope that it will haunt me as much as Chills Run Down My Spine by the same author, and I was not disappointed. The name should not put you off: all the stories are really good and have (mostly) happy endings. One of them, The Fireside Book of Ghost Stories, reminds of Jorge Luis Borges’s The Book of Sand — with the difference that one of the scary stories from the book of the title almost recreates itself in real life of its reader...

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