Vote for a ghost

[ramseycampbell]

...and you'll be telling me what to read:

www.fantasycon2012.org/ghoststory.php

As you see, the vote is open to all.

[cauldronbrewer]

I voted for Fritz Leiber's "Smoke Ghost," though I have a premonition that "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You My Lad" will win.

[David A. Riley]

I won't be going to FantasyCon this time so it would be cheeky of me to vote but if I was I'd go for James' A View from a Hill.

[dem bones]

would love to participate but - just the one !! What kind of twisted mind ....

I grabbed the first ghost book to hand which happened to be Mary Danby's 65 Great Tales Of The Supernatural, scanned the table of contents, realised i'd be hard pressed to select a top twenty from just that single source, thought of a number of great spectral tales that aren't in there, got extremely stressed, set off for Brick Lane market and some urgent mouldering paperback therapy ...

.... and look what happened there!

Arthur Blessitt & Walter Wagner - Turned On To Jesus (Word Books,

Cover: Alan Wagner & Partners Ltd.

Blurb
Sunset Strip, Los Angeles, the "Street of sin," At midnight: Drunken men and women stagger in and out of nightclubs. Pushers and prostitutes openly solicit. Motor-cycle gangs tear through the night, and hippies and runaways, lost and alone, wander in a haze of drugs.

Right at the centre of this hell is Arthur Blessitt, minister of Sunset Strip. HIS PLACE, the gospel nightclub he runs is a haven where hundreds take courage and hope from the Word of God and often pledge themselves to the service of Christ.

The story of Arthur Blessitt is an exciting, inspiring and wholly relevant look at faith in action today.

Walter Wagner is the author of the critic­ally acclaimed The Golden Fleecers and The Chaplain of Bourbon Street and also writes for magazines, newspapers and television.

You can have The Beckoning Fair One and like it.

[Jojo Lapin X]

Aug 26, 2012 15:57:06 GMT dem bones said:

The story of Arthur Blessitt is an exciting, inspiring and wholly relevant look at faith in action today.

This insistence that the book is "wholly relevant" makes me suspicious.

[Jojo Lapin X]

Aug 26, 2012 15:57:06 GMT dem bones said:

You can have The Beckoning Fair One and like it.

Or perhaps Peter Straub's GHOST STORY.

Edit: I checked, and the rules explicitly specify that it has to be a short story. So Onions it is, then! It should still provide hours of fun.

[cauldronbrewer]

Aug 26, 2012 16:43:16 GMT Jojo Lapin X said:

So Onions it is, then! It should still provide hours of fun.

Isn't that a novella? The rules exclude both novels and novellas.

If you're trying to clear the room, Walter de la Mare's "Out of the Deep" ought to do the trick nicely.

[dem bones]

damn! teach me not to read the rules. In that case - rather than pick a favourite, which is impossible - i'm going for a great ghost story I'd like to hear read aloud by Ramsey. A. M. Burrage's One Who Saw.

[ramseycampbell]

David (and everyone) - do note that it says

This poll is open to EVERYONE – you do not have to be a member of the convention to vote. The more people who participate, the more representative the winner will be.

[dem bones]

So which story came out on top, Ramsey?

[jamesdoig]

Oct 14, 2012 20:40:59 GMT dem bones said:

So which story came out on top, Ramsey?

My money's on "Casting the Runes."

[cauldronbrewer]

I'm sticking with "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You My Lad."

I voted, so I'd love to know who won.

[Dr Terror]

I'm not sure, but I think it was Whistle what won it.

[ramseycampbell]

Oct 14, 2012 20:40:59 GMT dem bones said:

So which story came out on top, Ramsey?

It was indeed "Oh, Whistle", which was spectacularly ahead of the rest of the field.

[Craig Herbertson]

Oct 15, 2012 13:38:51 GMT ramseycampbell said:

Oct 14, 2012 20:40:59 GMT dem bones said:

So which story came out on top, Ramsey?

It was indeed "Oh, Whistle", which was spectacularly ahead of the rest of the field.

It's certainly one of the classics. Unforgettable really. Casting of the Runes always hits the button of course but I suppose its technically about a demon?