GHOSTS: 2019 edition (THE GHOST STORIES OF NOEL HYND Book 1)

Perhaps most memorable ghost story you will ever read.... Revised 2019 edition with new introduction...... The classic ghost story is baaaaack....! Enter a world where the departed return to the world of the living....where ghosts walk and intermingle among us..... Nantucket Island. Quiet. Peaceful. Idyllic. For Oscar-winning actress Annette Carlson, it is the perfect refuge from a demanding career. For brilliant burned-out cop Tim Brooks, it's a chance to get away from the crime-ridden streets of the big city. And for Reverend George Osaro, ghost hunter, it is about to become a place of unspeakable terror.... "GHOSTS is one of the most refreshing reads of the year....It is a reminder of what made us love horror in the first place. GHOSTS is a gem." T. Liam McDonald, Cemetery Dance Magazine "GHOSTS left me feeling truly haunted. It is a remarkable novel." Rick Hautala "Noel Hynd is one of the few authors that has succeeded in showing us what we sense in the deepest reaches of our minds. He is a master because he is willing to go where we don't want to go in regards to the supernatural." Tobe Hooper, director of POLTERGEIST and SALEM'S LOT.

From Publishers Weekly

Sleepy Nantucket Island has become a homicide hotspot, with two unexplained deaths. While the murders appear to local cops to be unrelated, Detective Timothy Brooks, a recent transplant to the island, sees similarities in the corpses' wounds. Meanwhile, spectral disturbances, including sightings and eerie moving furniture, are plaguing both locals as well as the summer crowd. Hollywood star Annette Carlson, who bought a place following a stint in drug rehab, is besieged by visitations that she is certain are not figments of her overtaxed imagination. Brooks begins to see parallels between the recent killings and Carlson's bizarre accounts. He contacts his buddy, Lutheran minister and spiritualist George Osaro, to help identify the evil spirit--the ghost of Henry Flaherty, a no-account lothario and stage actor who was killed in the late 1920s. Soon, Osaro, Brooks and Carlson are pressed into service as "ghostbusters" to save Nantucket from a paranormal meltdown. Alternately playful and somber in tone, written in spare prose, Hynd's ( False Flags ) lengthy story will arouse fear and suspicion in any reader who has ever heard things go "bump"--day or night. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

A malevolent spirit is haunting the Nantucket house of actress Annette Carlson. It has killed at least three people with sickening viciousness. It now insinuates itself inside the head of policeman Timothy Brooks, a skeptical investigator forced against his will to recognize the existence of the occult. Brooks must lay this spirit to rest before it tires of toying with him and Annette and kills them both. With this novel, espionage writer Hynd makes his debut in the realm of the supernatural. A ghost novel needs to convince unbelieving readers against their will and scare the liver out of them, and Ghosts does this in spades. The atmosphere builds steadily, moving from reality to an utterly convincing realm of the supernatural. Public libraries need to buy this.- Marylaine Block, St. Ambrose Univ. Lib., Davenport, Ia.Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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