Northwest Passages - by Barbara Roden

[weirdmonger]

I've started this review and I can already judge (with due tentativeness) that this Ghost Story collection is just up the vaulters' streets.

[cw67q]

I liked this collection, but the three stand out tales were ones that i had already read in anthologies:

Northwest passage - a very eerie Canadian edge of wilderness tale

the Palace - a fine patient tale of a haunted hotel.

&
Tourist trap - a punchier and more traditional tale about a sinister maze

I thought these three tales were really excellent but some of the other fell a little flat for me (particularaly the Dickens and the Polar tale) and none lived up to the three above in terms of quality. Still three great tales, two of which are really novellas, is a good return.

- Chris