The Ghost Train's Last Ride and Other Stories: Ghost stories for Hallowe'en (en Inglés)
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Four ghost stories. Four encounters with the supernatural. And a few reminders that the dead can be every bit as troublesome as the living. There are things waiting in the darkness that are best left undisturbed. Strange encounters on lonely roads, restless spirits with unfinished business, and places where the ordinary world gives way to something altogether less familiar. The Ghost Train's Last Ride takes us inside a fairground ghost train on Hallowe'en night, where a young employee notices something disturbing about the passing cars. As the evening progresses, the attraction's familiar darkness begins to conceal far more than painted monsters and theatrical scares. In A Challenging Game of Crumble, an eccentric gathering of supernatural inhabitants meets in an old cemetery for its regular card game. There are rules to be followed, old disagreements to be settled, and an unexpected visitor who has a few questions of her own. The Franchise Game follows a woman travelling alone on a dark country road whose encounter with a mysterious stranger leads to a most unusual proposition. The rewards are tempting, the arrangements peculiar, and the consequences rather more complicated than she could possibly imagine. And in The Ghost Next Door, two unemployed Liverpool friends decide to make a living organising ghost walks. With a collection of invented hauntings, some decidedly eccentric performers and a battered old van, they set out to frighten the tourists. Unfortunately, the supernatural has ideas of its own. The Ghost Train's Last Ride and Other Stories brings together four very different tales of the uncanny, ranging from creeping dread and supernatural mystery to dark humour and the peculiar habits of the dearly departed. Atmospheric, occasionally unsettling and sometimes deliciously absurd, these are ghost stories in which the boundary between the living and the dead is rarely quite where you expect to find it. An ideal collection for Hallowe'en, or any evening when the shadows seem a little deeper than usual.
