A struggle, trudging through "poetic" elegiacal passages such as Yes, definitively, this is what it's all about, this is what Death is all about sit back now, I'll tell you, my God, they'd swarm all over like angry bees, the dead would, like angry bees which appear again and again throughout the narrative. He muses obsessively on the nature of death and the dead but not in any way I found insightful or surprising. yep, kinda I was hoping for that! But now, I'm feeling that same ambivalence about this novel too.Ī photographer named Abner Cray visits the city to do a coffee-table book of his work, staying at an old friend's empty apartment. Dared I hope for, I dunno, Woody Allen meets Roman Polanski (to put it in cinematic terms)? Well. Then I happily found a copy of MGS, feeling that his talents would lend themselves well to a quiet tale of haunting in the Big Apple. But Wright had skill, a manner and tone I found intriguing, so I didn't give up on reading another horror novel by him. He's a prolific but rather cultish author whose first book, the oddly poetic and ambiguous Strange Seed, I read and reviewed last year it left me nonplussed, unsure of how I really felt about it. For weeks now I've been slowly getting through A Manhattan Ghost Story, the seventh horror novel by T.M.
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