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Lädt ... The Ghost Stories of Muriel Spark (2003. Auflage)von Muriel Spark (Autor)
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I aim to startle as well as please," Muriel Spark has said, and in these eight marvelous ghost stories she manages to do both to the highest degree. As with all matters in the hands of Dame Muriel her spooks are entirely original. A ghost in her pantheon can be plaintive or a bit vengeful, or perhaps may not even be aware of being a ghost at all. One in fact is the ghost of a man who isn't even dead yet. Another takes the bus home from work, believing she is still alive, though she is haunted by an odious tune stuck in her head (which her murderer had been relentlessly humming), and distressed by a "feeling of incompletion." And a reflective ghost recalls her mortal days of enjoying "the glory of the world, as if it would never pass. Spark has a flair for confiding ghosts: "I must explain that I departed this life nearly five years ago. But I did not altogether depart this world. There were those odd things still to be done which one's executors can never do properly." In hercase the odd things include cheerily hailing her murderer, "Hallo George!" and driving him mad. The remarkably nonchalant stories here include some of her most wicked and famous"The Seraph and the Zambesi," "The Hanging Judge," and "The Portobello Road"and they all gleam with that special Spark sheen, the qualityThe Times Literary Supplement has hailed as "gloriously witty and polished." Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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The Girl I Left Behind Me is the one that I believe I have read before. It's a fantastic ghost story. It's very short so I can't really give any summary without giving anything away. It felt like something that could be retold around a campfire. I think this was my favorite of the bunch.
I almost liked The House of the Famous Poet but it was a little vague in some parts and I couldn't be totally sure of some of the things that happened. It is set during WWII in London.
Another Pair of Hands is a ghost story without any scare to it. I liked it as a short story but not as a ghost story. There's just nothing spooky about a maid whose work improves thanks to some help from the dead cook. The same with the story The Executor.
The final story was The Portobello Road which was the longest story and the most haunting. It was the most well-formed story with the strongest characters. It's the story of how the relationships of a small group of friends change over time.
http://webereading.com/2009/09/spooky-stories-with-spark.html ( )