I really loved ghost novels, horror novels, martial arts novels".
I love classic ghost novels like "Wuthering Heights," "Dracula," "The Turn of the Screw," and of course Shakespeare's ghosty plays.
Novels are far more popular than short stories, but there are very few full-length ghost novels because of the difficulties of sustaining suspension of disbelief.
Despite naming my first published novel Ghostwritten, I'd never considered writing a full-length "ghost novel" until handing in the manuscript of The Bone Clocks in 2014.
"I have always loved the classic Victorian ghost novel and I was interested to see what the necessary ingredients were to write one at full length and to sustain the tension.
When I came to write my ghost novel, This House Is Haunted, I deliberately set it in 1867 so that my opening chapter could feature a scene where the heroine and her father attend a reading of "The Signal-Man" by Dickens himself.
Tom Piccirilli, who last year unburdened himself of the turbulent, wackily eventful ghost novel NOVEMBER MOURNS (Bantam Spectra, paper, $5.99), traffics in extreme metaphors and narrative ploys that can seem fully as desperate and arbitrary as Nicholson's evil goats, and yet he has found a way to make a virtue out the apparent chaos of his morbid imagination.
This was dramatically demonstrated when On Chesil Beach, together with the entire Booker Prize shortlist, was outsold by Crystal, a ghosted novel marketed under the brand name Katie Price, formerly the model Jordan.
One figure is responsible for the current autobiographical torrent: the brassy glamour model Jordan, who is now knocking off (ghost-written) novels under her real name of Katie Price.
In "Exit Ghost," a novel published thirty-five yeafterfThe "The Ghost Writer," and its sequel, of sorts, Zuckerman remembers that Lonoff did end up abandoning his marriage to spend the last four years of his life with Amy.
The posters and programmes bring a flash of sadness because the play has now outlived by a decade its dramatist, Stephen Mallatratt (1947-2004), a graduate of Alan Ayckbourn's Stephen Joseph theatre in Scarborough who adapted The Woman in Black from the 1983 ghost story novel by Susan Hill.
