Tag Archives | ghosts
Oculus
Tim is about to be released from protective custody. We’re not quite sure what happened him and his sister ten […]
Posted on 15 June 2014 | By Fence | Leave a response
The Ghost Bride
Li Lan is seventeen. Her mother died of smallpox when she was very young, her father was so scarred by […]
Posted on 27 November 2013 | By Fence | 2 responses
The Dream Thieves
Part of my RIP VIII reading. Book 2 in The Raven Cycle In the first book we learned that Blue […]
Posted on 5 October 2013 | By Fence | 4 responses
The conjuring
Based on the true story. Or so they say. In the 1970s Roger and Carolyn Perron move into a new […]
Posted on 7 August 2013 | By Fence
The Ballad of the Wayfaring Stranger and the Dead Man’s Whore
via Metafilter Inspired by classic American murder ballads and folk songs such as In the pines and Knoxville Girl this […]
Posted on 13 July 2013 | By Fence | 2 responses
The Raven Boys
Blue is the daughter of a psychic. A non-psychic in a family of those with the gift. But she does […]
Posted on 27 October 2012 | By Fence | 3 responses
The Duchess Dresser
one of the stories in Cracklescape Tanner found an abandoned dresser on the street, thought it would be an addition […]
Posted on 25 June 2012 | By Fence
Grave’s end
In 1982 Elaine Mercado and her family moved from an apartment into what they hoped would be their dream home. […]
Posted on 10 December 2011 | By Fence | 1 response
The Lantern (group read, week 3)
This is the final week of our group read of The Lantern, and it was a really good experience. First […]
Posted on 24 October 2011 | By Fence | 12 responses
Closing time (Fragile things week 2)
Watch out for spoilers below. This is more of a discussion about rather than a review of sort of post. […]
Posted on 25 September 2011 | By Fence
October in the chair (Fragile things group read, week 1)
This is a story in a story, in a book of stories. Welcome to meta-ness The story opens with the […]
Posted on 12 September 2011 | By Fence | 2 responses
The hum and the shiver
Bronwyn Hyatt is coming home. A war hero. Or so some people say, others say she hasn’t changed a speck from the trash Tufa slut she was before she left, but to her family all that is important is that she is home. Back among the Tufa. And who are the Tufa? Well that no on seems quite sure of. They’ve been in the mountains of east Tennessee since before anyone can remember. Closely knit, and prizing musical ability, they live apart from other people. And Bronwyn is a true, pure-blooded Tufa, a First Daughter. But a haint is visiting, and there are ominus signs everywhere her people look.
