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|author=Paul Tremblay
|title=A Head full of Ghosts
|rating=4
|genre=Horror
|summary=I don't normally go in for horror stories, mainly because I usually can't take them seriously enough to suspend disbelief. But ''A Head full of Ghosts'' appealed to me, somehow - perhaps I was just curious to read the novel that ''scared the living hell out of'' Stephen King. Or maybe I was interested to see how Paul Tremblay dealt with the schizophrenic behaviour of his teenage protagonist. And I was certainly intrigued by the highly original storyline described in the blurb: when Marjorie, a teenage girl, starts behaving erratically, her family can't cope and call in the local priest and, ultimately, a TV crew who start to film a reality show about exorcisms.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785653679</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author= V H Leslie
|summary=Susan Hill is by far the master of the old fashioned ghost story. If you've ever read or seen [[The Woman in Black by Susan Hill|The Woman in Black]], then you’ll already know that, but her other ghost stories are a little less famous. That doesn’t make them any less good, and I for one am a big fan. I think there’s a lot to be said for a good old fashioned scare, with apparitions, goosebumps and cold chills up the spine. I always feel like I should be reading these books around a campfire, wrapped in a blanket and eating marshmallows because it very much reminds me of sharing ghost stories with my friends when I was a child. What I like to call a ‘proper scare’.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178125365X</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|title=The Quick
|author=Lauren Owen
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The Quick is the debut of author Lauren Owen, and set in the gothic world of Victorian London. Owen guides us through the lives of several characters, but specifically James and Charlotte, siblings living in a Yorkshire mansion. Left to fend for themselves due to a dead mother and an absent father, the two grow up close, playing dark games to pass the time. It is only when James, the younger child, moves to London, that the games become very real indeed, and both brother and sister must fight to save not just themselves, but their humanity.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099569973</amazonuk>
}}

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