Ghost Dreams by Matthew Hughes

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Ghost Dreams 

by Matthew Hughes

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My Ratings 4.4/5

Synopsis
Commercial burglar Stan Winkelman encounters the ghost of a Jane Manchester, wrongly confined for life in a 1940s insane asylum by a powerful family. She wants to know what happened to Harmon, the baby boy that was stolen from her.

Aided by Jeannie, his ghost-obsessed autistic daughter, Stan and Jane begin a quest to find Harmon, or his descendants. But their search will run them afoul of Andrew Bigelow, reclusive heir to the fortune Jane was robbed of.

And Bigelow is in cahoots with a murderous crew who deal in guns and blood diamonds and will stop at nothing to keep their crimes hidden.

Stan uses his burglar skills to uncover the truth, but that will draw him and Jeannie into a deadly confrontation, with the vengeful spirit of Jane Manchester his only ally.

My Thoughts
Delightfully well-crafted and enchantingly imaginative . . . It has some of the same ineluctable atmosphere that made Matthew Hughes’s paranormal books such a popular success.

Horror is a peculiar genre. If it’s meant purely to scare, what is scary? What might shock one reader is laughable to another. Ghosts, serial killers, great heaving monsters, the loss of self-control. Ghost Dreams by Matthew Hughes is an amazing piece of bone chilling novel in which characters are running for their lives. As much as horror is a genre it’s also a technique; a way to confront or explore something real by taking the audience to extremes. As a kid I was terrified of horror films – until I actually watched one and then I couldn’t get enough. But what really stood out about the films and books I loved the most was that more often than not the horrific aspect was only one part of what made the story special. The best horror has something more on its mind than just scares, and indeed finds a way to use the scares to explore whatever that something is, and Ghost Dreams by Matthew Hughes is one those amazing books. Ghost Dreams totally got into my head to the degree that it found it's way into my dreams. I was so involved with the story and characters that they made my head their home. The characters are so superbly written.

If I have not made it clear that I recommend this book then I suppose that I have no gift for recommendation. Do read it if you have any taste for this sort of thing, and especially if your recollection is still taken up with the films.

A must read for sure!

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