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Don't Call Them Ghosts: The Spirit Children of Fontaine Manse - A True Story | Kathleen McConnell

The $8500 house the author wanted so badly. What?!
The Historic McConnell House in Wurtland, Kentucky, in Greenup County, near the Ohio River. Est. 1833.

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JenniferEgnor

Grave's End: A True Ghost Story | Elaine Mercado

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I enjoy haunting memoirs. The author‘s story appears on the tv series Paranormal Witness, Season 2, Episode 2…but her book is much better. For years, she lived in fear in the old Brooklyn house she and her family lived in, until finding out what happened to the restless spirits occupying her home, and why they were there. Fascinating, personal. Books like this help open up the conversation for what many experience but fear to talk about.

JenniferEgnor Link: https://archive.ph/2025.11.22-143956/https://www.nydailynews.com/2012/08/15/grav... 2d

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PuddleJumper

Tie Me Knot | Allie Brahms

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The description of this sounded great and I wanted something easy. I didn't realize the author also writes as AJ Sherwood, an author I've read before and not enjoyed.

This had such an interesting premise that I wished another author had written this. It was shallow, there was a lot of ‘not like other girls‘, sexism, and it was boring.

AbigailJaneBlog Euch that's such a shame! 2d

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JenniferEgnor

Black Hope Horror: The True Story of a Haunting | Ben Williams

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When I started reading this book, it reminded me a lot of Poltergeist (film). Here is a memoir from the 1980s in Crosby, TX: when a family unknowingly moves into a new subdivision that was built over a historical Black cemetery, they quickly find themselves in an unreal situation. I couldn‘t help but be reminded of how many Black communities have been destroyed and covered up (Central Park, Lake Lanier, etc).

JenniferEgnor Shown: when you look up Black Hope Cemetery on Google Earth Street View, a street and suburb comes up. There is no sign that a cemetery ever was. Below: possibly the only photo ever taken of the cemetery before it was bulldozed. 3d

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Mattsbookaday

Night Side of the River | Jeanette Winterson

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Night Side of the River, by Jeanette Winterson (2023)
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Premise: A collection of ghost stories and personal reflections on the paranormal by a contemporary master of short fiction.

Review: The worst thing I can say about this is that it‘s uneven. It starts off strong, with some seriously disturbing tales of haunting by AI and other virtual technology. ⬇️

Mattsbookaday The rest of the collection returns to more familiar territory but, with a couple exceptions, felt a bit phoned in. (This was exacerbated by my favourite story in the collection being previously featured in her collection of Christmas stories.) But an uneven collection by Winterson is still well-worth reading.

Bookish Pair: For another collection of stories with frightening tech, Uranians, by Theodore McCombs (2023) 5d

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booklover3258

Wolfgang in the Meadow | Lenny Wen

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So adorable! This book is about a ghost who wants to be a top ghost but is the power really helping this ghost or will it make him depressed? Cute story and love the graphics!

Read-n-Bloom It looks so cute! 🥰 5d

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