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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