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One of my All Time Favorites! I can't wait for the movie!
This one falls between 2 and 3 stars due to the fact that if felt like two stories forced together. One was a gritty, depressing thriller filled with vulgarity and lewd sexual content. The other was a ghost story with sketchy theology. The author could have left out some of the more graphic descriptions and had an engaging story. Instead, he resorted to cheap tactics to keep the reader shocked. I almost stopped after reading the first 30 pages, but kept going because I felt there was something r...
They're all dead!...No spoilers: 5 stars. This well-written tale takes place in the 1930s in a small southern town called Evening Shade...Mally, a 39 year old black woman, parks her old car at the edge of the woods one evening at Cole's Crossing...... to wait for the Dixie Traveler, a train which passes through at exactly 9:04 every night...Mally is an imaginative train watcher and wonders what it would be like to be a paying passenger...Suddenly, by the light of the moon, Mally sees 14 year old...
this book was somewhat confusing and slow at first, it took me a while to understand the story. Once you are a little past the middle it starts to come together. This story is very sweet in alot of ways. A misunderstood handicapped teenager, a black woman who is looked down on and treated second class but who is kind and forgiving. Murder, rape and guilt seem to rule this story and of course all is made right in the end in an unexpected way
Set in 1952 in Tennessee, Priest Howard on his death bed, tells his black nurse Mally Shaw that his son, Leland, an aspiring politician, is a thief. When Leland learns that his father has given Mally information that would indict him, he kidnaps her, rapes, and kills her. This is the first part of the story where the believability really gets stretched. After Mally’s death, she somehow has established a psychic connection with a mute boy Alex, whose brother is the town’s sheriff. In this raciall...
This was my first book by veteran horror/thriller writer John Farris, a ghost story of sorts that could function almost as well without the supernatural element. Alex, a mute troubled adolescent, witnesses the rape and events that lead to a later murder of a woman who has become his most trusted friend. Alex's will causes the woman's spirit to stay behind and help bring justice. There are great themes here: that revenge has a cost that may be too high to bear, that we help nobody by hanging on t...
In the vein of iconic ghost stories, this takes a leisurely pace and slowly amps up the tension and menace surrounding its very likable young hero. If we had the option of half-stars I might have given it a 3 1/2 because, while very good and an excellent armchair or beach read, it would be helpful to be able to save the four- and five-star designations for those phenomenal linger-in-your-brain stories. Faced with the three versus four choice, though, I readily give this four because the issues o...
I enjoyed this a lot...a ghost story just spooky enough to give me a small frisson at the end. There were actually several satisfying endings in a way, and it made me smile. I think this book will stay with me and give me pleasure for quite awhile to come.
very well written....
I've been a fan of Farris since reading The Fury in 1978, and he still yet to let me down. This book started as a standard "Will the killer get caught?" tale, but with Farris' classic blend of suspense and the supernatural, Phantom Nights becomes so much more.
This was a great read I felt sorry for Alex and really dislike his sister in law and her mother would love to read more from John Farris
Phantom Nights is an interesting blend of the natural and super natural under the sub title as a rape and murder case. Set in the antebellum South, which I estimated to be the 1950's, by its tone and usage of terminology, especially in addressing race relations. The story has all of the standard making's of a drunken rape, then subsequent murder which takes the reader into a number of different directions from there.One of the only reasons I became interested in this book had to do with the prom...
With the combination of a thriller/ghost story, and Alex a rebellious 14 year old mute, that's befriended by Mally, a young black woman in 1952 Tennesee. Farris writes a tale with dread and also tender moments. The description of that era and wonderful writing make this a recommended read, by a long time thriller/horror writer.
