2.5 out of 5!My review is solely on me and my particular taste in horror books.Gwendolyn Kiste's writing was beautiful! I even highlighted a couple of passages of just gorgeous prose. But this is the type of story that is definitely more quiet and poetic, requiring interpretation, and is just not my kind of horror.

"Too many broken dreams not to be haunted."Gwendolyn Kiste is one of my favorite authors, and this is yet another great story from her. There's a lot packed into this small book. I'm not sure if I fully understood everything that happened, but I really enjoyed reading it. The writing is gorgeous, and the story is captivating.The artwork in this book was pretty, and it's a gorgeous chapbook. If you like haunting / ghost stories, I highly recommend picking this one up. Gwendolyn Kiste is the best,...

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The Invention of Ghosts is a beautifully haunting tale about the bonds of friendship and the pain that ensues when that friendship begins to fade. The lovely artwork compliments the ethereal feel of the story.4 1/2 Stars

This book is about everly and her best friend that aren’t your typical college students. They spend their weekends playing with magic until it goes all wrong. The whole time I was reading this book is was very curious and wanted answers and that’s what Gwendolyn wanted. She wants to leave you guessing and then at the end I was hit with so many emotions! My heart was bursting and my eyes filled with tears... this story you can’t get as a physical book anymore because there were only 100 made but

The way some authors can pack so much punch into a novella length story will never cease to amaze me. Bram Stoker Award winning author, Gwendolyn Kiste is one of the best authors of indie horror fiction on the market today. The Invention of Ghosts was an insta-buy. As soon as I saw it was one of Nightscape’s Charitable Chapbooks with a Luke Spooner cover and interior illustrations, I couldn’t pull the trigger fast enough.This is the story of two best friends. The girls are social outcasts and sh...

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In looking back on this book, it’s simply incredible how much was achieved in so few words. This is a novella with depth, complexity, and subtlety. A story of a friendship between two broken people and a ghost story that doesn’t try to scare, so much as use the supernatural to reveal truths in a way reality cannot. If you are not already a Kiste fan this will make you a convert.

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This story was beautiful, and sad, and just perfect.

"Even God knew I was a lost cause."I don't know what it is, but Gwendolyn's books always have a way of making me sob. I can feel her writing to the very core of my heart. She definitely knows how to write friendship in such a special and haunting way.

Two girls, social outcasts and a huge portion of the supernatural make this ‘The Craft’ style book a fun and enjoyable read, but for me I didn’t really gel with the story. That’s on me, the disconnection with the story as it’s written beautifully by Kiste and has an emotionally charged storyline, the ideas are great but I don’t know what it was but I just couldn’t connect with it. This will be one of those books I’ll re-read at some point and see the true beauty and magic behind it, but right no...

A very nice chapbook story, a haunted piece of fiction that tells just enough while leaving things open to interpretation. Everly and her college roommate, her best friend from growing up, find that magic is a bit too real. Except that things aren't really what they seem. If Everly could remember her childhood with her best friend, that might help; but she can't, any more than she can control the things happening around her. The story has a wonderfully sinister ambience to it, helped by the beau...

"But how could you fight what wasn't there, a presence thinner than mist yet heavier than heartache?"Beautifully written. Reality, imagination, and the supernatural blur in this emotional story of friendship and personal discovery...

My review of THE INVENTION OF GHOSTS can be found at High Fever Books.In The Invention of Ghosts, Gwendolyn Kiste spins a slow and somber story about two young women in college with no memories and no pasts. Although Everly knows Dahlia is her best friend, she doesn’t know how they met and cannot recall anything of their history together. Their relationship is a perfectly blank slate, without even a single cellphone snapshot to commemorate their bond. Everly’s interests in witchcraft and the occ...

A stunning novelette, both the writing and the amazing layout/artwork that Nightscape has put together. Kiste's voice really shines in The Invention of Ghosts. The story flows in a gorgeous, fluid way that lulls you like ocean waves, and you know something is haunting those dark depths -- throughout the book, we are completely immersed within the character of Everly, and Kiste really shows how shorter books can pack as much depth and punch as any other work. Everly is a fully realized character,...

There are drinks that you slam back and drinks that you sip and savor. Due to the length (only 64 pages), this could easily be a one and done slam. However, I strongly suggest that you savor the delicate notes of this story.The Invention of Ghosts is lyrical, sad, and beautiful. Gwendolyn Kiste's prose draws you in and holds you until the story is done. Luke Spooner's artwork adds to the sense of darkness invoked by Kiste's words.Highly Recommended.

The Invention of GhostsReview:Two girls share a dorm room and there is a relationship in trouble in continuing changes one has displayed and continues to grow with, “A girl with arcane aspirations, secrets she planned to unravel.”Undying love with ghostly aspects and need to break from the past from a crucible and the solid matter.People have a need for entertainment and spectacle they can’t leave one girl Everly alone they insist on more.Things need to align, pasts to be remembered and things t...

"Were their pills and pens and empty promises really stronger than me? Because nobody weak had ever survived so long shackled to a ghost like you."Gwendolyn Kiste is one of my most highly rated auto-buy authors; I've read 3 or 4 other books by her so far, and will keep grabbing every new one she writes because I've never given any of them less than 5 stars.The Invention of Ghosts is a story about friendship and sadness; it's about not fitting in until you do, and then doing everything you can no...

“That night, I went walking among shadows and forgotten spirits. All campuses were strange, spectral places, even if the brochures never bragged about it. Too many broken dreams not to be haunted.”*Everly and her best friend do everything together. Childhood friends, they are roommates in college. Everly’s obsession with the occult terrifies her friend to the point that she demands boundaries be set. Boundaries that Everly can’t help but breach. Boundaries that once broken forever change their r...