Rosemary Gray
Forfatter af Scottish Ghost Stories
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Twas The Night Before Christmas and Other Christmas Stories (Children's Classics) (2010) 13 eksemplarer
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- 18
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- 323
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- #73,309
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- 2.9
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- 2
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- 26
First off, this book is very badly titled. Sure, all the stories are Irish, either in setting, characters, or authors, but half of them are completely lacking in ghosts. There are a lot of stories about leprechauns. We also see fairies, a banshee, a witch, and some giants.
Secondly, reading it was a bit of a slog. I hate reading stories written in dialect, and this book contained several written in an Irish brogue. Even worse some of the stories were really boring, especially "The Living Ghost" by [[Rosa Mulholland]], which also had the bad misfortune to be one of the longest stories in the book. I suffered through 20 pages of a Victorian Gothic romance story with nary a sign of ghosts (or any supernatural elements) before skipping the next 50 or so pages and moving on to the next story.
This is one book I just can't recommend.… (mere)