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Nightshade is an interesting combination of varying length ghost stories. Some of the stories were tens of pages long, some were only two pages long. Just as they varied in length, they varied in my enjoyment. Though I read through all of the stories, some really bored me. I think part of the reason was that some were more literary for literary sake, rather than frightening or enjoyable ghost stories. Others, though, were great, such as The Highboy, which was about a haunted and evil piece of fu...
Really fun stories
Adding this not because Halloween is approaching but because I've just heard of Ilse Aichinger -- and look at the other contributors.
There was a mixture of good stories and so-so stories in this collection. It certainly whetted my appetite for ghost stories with the opening two stories, first about a motorboat that would never stop running, keeping its owner trapped driving around the lake, and second, a charming story about two lovers trapped inside an office building, never able to meet each other. From there, it varied greatly, some stories that I just didn't get and others that were delightful.It's definitely worth a read...
So far... okay. I am hanging in there. I had to quit the first story because it was bad and boring. But I'll keep reading and see where it ends up...
An excellent collection of ghost stories from some of the 20th centuries best authors, including Joyce Carol Oates and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
I think it's fair to say that this collection of ghost stories has something for everyone. The unfortunate downside of that is it also has something that everyone will hate. I thought there were some excellent stories in here (particularly those by Aiken, Jackson, and Lurie) - but there were some as dull as ditchwater, and I stand amazed that they were ever published at all, let alone gathered up for reprints.
A disapointing collection of ghost stories.
If like me you read a lot of spooky story collections, you will come across the same stories every so often. But it's okay. If you're like me and don't have the best memory for the plot points of what you've read years before, it's almost like reading it for the first time with a slight sense of deja vu. Nightshade is a solid collection of "ghost" stories from "classic" writers of the 20th century, so... Joyce Carol Oates, Shirley Jackson, Franz Kafka, etc., and as such it provides a lot of vari...
