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Do you see ghosts?Photographer Abner Cray arrives in Manhattan to begin work on an illustrated book of the city. However he finds that Art, the owner of the flat he is staying in, has gone missing, leaving behind a beguiling and sensuous young lady called Phyllis Pellaprat to whom he's instantly attracted. Soon Abner is deeply involved with Phyllis and is wholly unprepared for the revelation that Art is actually wanted for her murder - an event which took place some time earlier. When show more Phyllis disappears, Abner wanders the streets, and he sees what appear to be disaffected and strangly acting people everywhere - hailing taxis, selling puppies on street corners, pushing baby carriages, and he starts to suspect ... This classic novel was first published nearly twenty-five years ago: it's a hypnotic, spooky page-turner that is by turns a terrifying slide into madness and an effective love story. show lessTags
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Abner Cray is a photographer from Maine who is in New York to pull together pictures for a coffee-table book. He is offered his friend Abe's apartment for the duration of his photo project. He discovers however, the apartment is already occupied by the dead woman who was recently murdered by his friend Abe. The rest of the city is equally occupied by multiple ghosts of people who just don't want to let go. Things go sideways from there. In my opinion, the author never really does pull it all together to make anything plausible or entertaining. It was a struggle to finish the book.
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- Original title
- A Manhattan Ghost Story
- Original publication date
- 1984
- People/Characters
- Abner Cray; Art DeGraff; Phyllis Pellaprat
- Important places
- New York, New York, USA
- Dedication
- For Dorian
and for Phil Zaleski - First words
- When I think of a ghost story, I think about children shivering around a campfire while an aging man with a long, austere face summons up---in resonant, wonderfully spectral tones---the way the misdeeds of the dead will soon ... (show all)be visited upon the living, and I think about old, gray houses that have somehow had Evil implanted in them, and I think about rocking chairs that rock on their own, and about crying in empty rooms, about cold spots, warm spots, hot spots, hounds out of hell, men who hang themselves in attics, and in cellars, again and again and again.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)I'll let you know.
- Blurbers
- Strieber, Whitley
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