The twins burst out in shrieks of laughter and the ghost fled. In order to frighten the boys enormously, he flung the door wide open, when a heavy jug of water fell right down on him, wetting him to the skin. When he reached the twins' bedroom, he found the door slightly open. This so annoyed the ghost, that he decided to teach the twins a lesson and give them the fright of their lives.Īll day long the ghost had prepared this grand event and at a quarter past one at night he finally glided out of his room and crept down the corridor. They stretched strings across the corridor, over which he tripped in the dark, and once he slipped on a butter-slide, which the twins had constructed for him on the staircase. However, the twins still played their tricks on him. Whenever the Canterville ghost roamed the house now, he was careful to have oiled his chains and not to make a sound. If the Otis family did not want it, they clearly did not deserve it. He also gave up the point of the blood-stain on the library floor. He was very weak and tired and his nerves were completely shattered. For five days, the ghost did not leave his room.
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"Captivating and unique! Sara Wolf has created a world quite unlike one I've ever read in Bring Me Their Hearts. A zesty treat for YA and new-adult fantasists." – Kirkus Reviews She is assertive, proactive, and, above all, a fun character to follow, yet she's sufficiently well-rounded. "Zera is an exemplar of confident, capable, relentlessly witty young womanhood. The Bring Me Their Hearts series is best enjoyed in order. Now it’s a game of cat and mouse between a girl with nothing to lose and a boy who has it all. The prince's honor has him quickly aiming for her throat. She's inelegant, smart-mouthed, carefree, and out for his blood. No one can challenge him-until the arrival of Lady Zera. With her heart in a jar under Nightsinger's control, she serves the witch unquestioningly…until Nightsinger asks Zera for a prince's heart in exchange for her own.īut if Zera's discovered infiltrating the court, Nightsinger will destroy her heart, rather than see her tortured by the witch-hating nobles.Ĭrown Prince Lucien d'Malvane hates the royal court as much as it loves him-every tutor too afraid to correct him and every girl jockeying for a place at his handsome side. Bound to the witch Nightsinger, Zera longs for freedom from the woods they hide in. Zera is a Heartless-the immortal, ageless soldier of a witch. An Amazon "Best Book of the Month: Science Fiction & Fantasy" “Pop Art” is about a lonely boy who has, not exactly an imaginary friend, but an inflatable one. Many of the stories in this collection are about the loneliness and alienation of youth. She was so in love with the movies and loved talking about them so much that her ghost just naturally has to haunt a movie theatre. The girl died violently in some way that involved the letting of blood. In twenty years or so, there are around two dozen people who have had encounters with the ghost girl in the theatre, and those who do never forget the experience. The short story “20 th Century Ghost,” from which the title of the collection is derived, is about the ghost of a nineteen-year-old girl who haunts an old movie theatre. Whether you like them or not, they are all quirky and unconventional, written in an engaging and compelling style that keeps you turning the pages to see what’s coming up on the next page. As with any collection, there were some stories I liked and some not so much. Not all the stories in the collection are about ghosts some are about other things, but nearly all the stories have some element about them of mystery or the unexplainable. 20 th Century Ghosts ~ A Capsule Book Review by Allen KoppĢ0 th Century Ghosts is a collection of contemporary short stories by American writer Joe Hill. |