A Manhattan Ghost Story by T.M. Wright

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


I remember the first time I read this many years ago and it had a totally different impact on me then. It actually kind of scared me and had more of a feeling of menace and darkness. This time around I was actually kind of bored by it. I was in my late teens or early twenties when I read it originally and maybe I was more easily taken with books, though I liked a lot of horrors then and still do now. The story is kind of dry with hints of emotion here and there to keep you reading. The narrator, Dick Hill, does an alright job but I never really felt like the story took off.

Abner W. Kray has gone to Manhattan to do a big coffee table book of the city. He is staying at the home of Art DeGraf, a friend of his from Maine who moved to the city years before. Art married into his family but was divorced from her and still wants to be friends with Abner. When Abner arrives he meets Phyllis Pellaprat who claims to be Art’s girlfriend but then starts to come on to him. As things progress he finds himself in a world parallel to ours where the things that go bump in the night reside.

Decent but not for everyone.



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