Abbot's Keep: A Ghost Story
Registered by GoryDetails of Nashua, New Hampshire USA on 6/17/2015
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Can't remember where I first heard of this, but it sounded intriguing so I ordered it from Barnes and Noble. It's part epistolary novel, with a tale-within-a-tale structure, and features some old-style British ghost-story tropes - including the doomed-to-be-ignored warning, "Do not follow me once you have read this. No good can come of it." Why doesn't anyone ever heed those warnings? (Well, because there'd be no story otherwise, obviously, but it still grates a bit!) There's a fairly standard cursed-treasure setup here, but with some nicely creepy and atmospheric scenes that enhance the basic storyline.
I'm adding this to the Otherworldly bookbox, which will be on its way to its next stop soon!
I picked this out of emmejo's Otherworldly Bookbox. Who can resist a good ol' ghost story? This will be a good one to tuck in my purse while traveling out and about. Thanks for sharing!
I read this while traveling down to Florida. I read it in part of a day and was glad I didn't have to put it down. It was a nice little Gothic horror story that took me on a reading adventure in the Berkshire countryside. I agree GoryDetails, what would possess to someone to migrate towards something dark and sinister? I guess there's different kinds of crazy. Ha! Good thing ol' Clifford chose to check on his brother because they surely provided the reader with a good little dose of creepy entertainment.
I may hang onto this a little while as my daughter seemed interested in reading it. But I will definitely pass it along at some point. Thanks for sharing!
I may hang onto this a little while as my daughter seemed interested in reading it. But I will definitely pass it along at some point. Thanks for sharing!
I'm putting this book into emmejo's Otherworldly Bookbox. Happy Travels!
Creepy, gothic ghost story told in notes and letters. Better than I was expecting. I really should know better than to read something creepy when I am home alone. Oh, will I ever learn! I'll have to read or watch something in a more cheery vein before bed. :/
Movies and books like to set their stories in a time before email, twitter, etc. With Abbot's Keep using letters, Ella Minnow Pea also using letters and notes despite being in the era of digital means, but the author got around it by making the island a place where they shunned technology for the most part, and I've read a couple like Seven Eves where they use blogs and vlogs but it's not written in an epistolary style. (This story was set in the early 80s even though it was published in 2014.) But I do wonder how stories like this would work in a more modern setting. I've read some and heard about others that are written in more modern times using blog style or some type of feed, but curious what it would look like with a combination, as that is how conversations go nowadays, using Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, YouTube, WhatsApp, etc. Any suggestions to try? I haven't read Feed by Mira Grant yet. But that would be one suggestion. Any others?
Movies and books like to set their stories in a time before email, twitter, etc. With Abbot's Keep using letters, Ella Minnow Pea also using letters and notes despite being in the era of digital means, but the author got around it by making the island a place where they shunned technology for the most part, and I've read a couple like Seven Eves where they use blogs and vlogs but it's not written in an epistolary style. (This story was set in the early 80s even though it was published in 2014.) But I do wonder how stories like this would work in a more modern setting. I've read some and heard about others that are written in more modern times using blog style or some type of feed, but curious what it would look like with a combination, as that is how conversations go nowadays, using Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, YouTube, WhatsApp, etc. Any suggestions to try? I haven't read Feed by Mira Grant yet. But that would be one suggestion. Any others?
Journal Entry 8 by Spatial at Sweepstake, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Released 5 yrs ago (9/5/2018 UTC) at Sweepstake, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases
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Congratulations!
Off to the winner of the Amazing Supernatural Sweepstakes Round 12
Hope you enjoy!
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Journal Entry 9 by Plum-crazy at Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Wednesday, September 12, 2018
This arrived today along with some cute Halloween style "Peanuts" stickers. It looks just my sort of book -many thanks Spatial :o)
Journal Entry 10 by Plum-crazy at Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Tuesday, October 2, 2018
A creepy & at times unsettling little tale in what I'd class a "traditional" style (think "The Woman in Black") - the sort of spooky tale that the BBC2 used to love to show late on Christmas Eve!
The story is told in the form of letters whose prose & phrases seemed more reminiscent of the 1890s than the 1980s in which it was set - even the letters between husband & wife seemed quite formal - still it helped, to my mind at least, to help convey the aged atmosphere of Abbot's Keep & I could feel a sense of unease building.
A chilling little tale indeed & I'll look out for more by this author.
The story is told in the form of letters whose prose & phrases seemed more reminiscent of the 1890s than the 1980s in which it was set - even the letters between husband & wife seemed quite formal - still it helped, to my mind at least, to help convey the aged atmosphere of Abbot's Keep & I could feel a sense of unease building.
A chilling little tale indeed & I'll look out for more by this author.
Journal Entry 11 by Plum-crazy at Sweepstake, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases on Tuesday, December 4, 2018
Released 5 yrs ago (12/4/2018 UTC) at Sweepstake, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases
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On it's way to the latest winner of the Supernatural Sweepstake....hope you enjoy it as much as I did :o)
thankyou so much for this ghosty story :)
it looks like it might be one of those 'while i'm waiting' reads - thin enough to put in my handbag and i heed the advice to be reading in daylight hours and when not alone....
happy reading
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it looks like it might be one of those 'while i'm waiting' reads - thin enough to put in my handbag and i heed the advice to be reading in daylight hours and when not alone....
happy reading
;)
and now it goes on a journey across australia ... to keep another book on its guard, um, company...
i did actually carry this around with me for one of those waitingtime reads, but there haven't been any of those recently
so off it goes for a little adventure
;)
i did actually carry this around with me for one of those waitingtime reads, but there haven't been any of those recently
so off it goes for a little adventure
;)
Journal Entry 14 by LadyIndigo at companion traveller, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases on Monday, July 22, 2019
Released 4 yrs ago (7/23/2019 UTC) at companion traveller, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases
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boo .. happy reading
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This well travelled book arrived today.
I liked the way the story was told through letters. The chill slowly builds until….shudder.
It is travelling with me to Adelaide.
It is travelling with me to Adelaide.
Journal Entry 17 by amberC at Big 4 West Beach in West Beach, South Australia Australia on Wednesday, October 12, 2022
Released 1 yr ago (10/13/2022 UTC) at Big 4 West Beach in West Beach, South Australia Australia
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In the Laundry in Block 1