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A Manhattan Ghost Story
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Do you see ghosts? Photographer Abner Cray arrives in Manhattan to begin work on an illustrated book of the city. However he finds that Art, the owner of the flat he is staying in, has gone missing, leaving behind a beguiling and sensuous young lady called Phyllis Pellaprat to whom he's instantly attracted. Soon Abner is deeply involved with Phyllis and is wholly unprepared for the revelation that Art is actually wanted for her murder - an event which took place some time earlier. When Phyllis disappears, Abner wanders the streets, and he sees what appear to be disaffected and strangly acting people everywhere - hailing taxis, selling puppies on street corners, pushing baby carriages, and he starts to suspect ... This classic novel was first published nearly twenty-five years ago: it's a hypnotic, spooky page-turner that is by turns a terrifying slide into madness and an effective love story. "T M Wright is a rare and blazing talent." Stephen King "Wright convincingly proves that he understands, as few do, how to give a scare without spilling blood all over the page." Publishers Weekly "T M Wright is the best ghost story writer alive today." American Fantasy Magazine
Outline Review
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, T. M. Wright earned praise from critics for a series of ghost novels about isolated houses in upstate New York. A Manhattan Ghost Story, first published in 1984, moved the action to New York City. And the tale is not about a single building, but about an all-pervasive layer of reality in which the shades of the living mark their days in a listless state, until finally they fall apart. A commercial photographer gets slowly pulled, while still living, over to the "other side"--a plight that leads to a profoundly unsettling and surreal chain of events. "And if you get stuck in that other city, that other Manhattan, you find yourself getting awfully desperate and mean-spirited, the way some people are affected by too much heat or the crying of small children." Wright's ghosts are evocatively described, with their awkward movements and stares of "quiet, studied indifference." But be forewarned that A Manhattan Ghost Story, while justly celebrated, has a couple of minor flaws: a weak love story and slipshod editing that didn't catch place names that change partway through.
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Item Specifications...
Pages 200
Dimensions: Length: 8.11" Width: 5.91" Height: 0.87"
Weight: 1.1 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date Sep 15, 2006
ISBN 1845830482
EAN 9781845830489
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 | A bizarre parade of events May 6, 2008 |
| The classic novel that debuted almost a quarter of a century ago, "A Manhattan Ghost Story" follows photographer Abner Cray as he arrives in the Manhattan area of New York City. Normalcy isn't something that stays for long, as his landlord vanishes without a trace, as does the woman he begins to lust for - both events happening in that order, but nothing adds up when Cray discovers that his landlord is wanted for the murder of the woman he loves- before Cray even met her. A bizarre parade of events continues to unfold in this enthusiastically recommended story that all horror fans will relish and should find a place on every community library fiction shelf. | | | | Sixth sense for adults.-poetic,supernatural,playing with mind -masterpiece Feb 9, 2008 |
| First time I read the book -it took me a while to find out who is human and who is ghost because the story and idea is very ground breaking and novel in horror genre. There is nothing 'typical' here. Every two-three year I read this book- it is very scary in the sense it plays with your mind. the ghost in this [ or for that matter any T M Wright/F W Armstrong] book are not your average 1000 teeth,scaly,horn,red eyes,12 feet,talon and wings. they are normal looking people. Lots of people said before and I am saying it here again- 'This is sixth sense for adult'. Like all great ghost story- this is also sad. read it. You have to read between the lines to enjoy, though. 'Waiting room' and 'spider on my toung' are kind of part 2 and 3. | | | | THE ORIGINAL "SIXTH SENSE" - ? Jul 16, 2004 |
| Long before "The Sixth Sense" came out, this novel was contracted to be made into a major motion picture starring Sharon Stone. Along the way, the movie didn't get made, but "Sixth Sense" came out looking like a rip-off of the basic idea. Read this well-written and original book and compare. | | |  | Well-written, but loses it at the end Apr 14, 2004 |
| I very much enjoyed "A Manhattan Ghost Story" from the very first page. It was around page 300 that it began to lose me. The story focuses on Abner Cray, a photographer that comes to New York City to work on a book and winds up falling in love with a woman he meets in the apartment he is subletting from a friend. As he wanders the city he finds unusual things from out of a nightmare, and begins to learn that his new love may not be what he thinks. Wright has a wonderful, engaging style of writing, the sort of style that reads quickly and keeps you turning the page to see what happens next. The problem is that you still feel that way after the last page. There's no sense of conclusion to the book. You don't get a feeling of resolution for Abner, you only get a hint of resolution for Art, and subplots about the deaths of his parents, estrangement from his family and a superfluous subplot about an incestuous relationship with his cousin never go anywhere at all. At the ending you get a feeling that the writer intended the book to have an unresolved feeling, implying that's how life (and death) is, but instead I was just left unsatisfied. Wright's style is good enough to make me interested in reading some of his other works (this is the first book of his I've read), but if the second one doesn't give me a more fulfilling read than this, there probably won't be a third. | | |  | A unique horror story Jul 20, 2002 |
| I agree with the reviewer who feels Wright should be up there with Stephen King and other horror writers. I picked up this book at a used book store, and liked it so much I have now purchased used editions of all the other books of his I can get my hands on. I found this novel compelling and written in a unique style. Try it, horror fans! | | | Write your own review about A Manhattan Ghost Story
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