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The Haunting Season: Eight Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights by Imogen Hermes Gowar, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Elizabeth Macneal, Andrew Michael Hurley, Jess Kidd, Bridget Collins, Laura Purcell, Natasha Pulley

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heather_freshparchment's review against another edition

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dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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izzyhallow's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

This book is the PERFECT January read. Eight short stories that invoke Winter but not necessarily Christmas, I enjoyed reading one or two each evening for the last week.

My ranking from favourite to least would be:
Monster
Confinement
The Eel Singers
Lily Wilt
The Chillingham Chair
A Study in Black and White
Thwaite's Tennant
The Hanging of the Greens

It made me chuckle how the (living) men in these stories were often the scariest ghouls.

When adding content warnings I realise that the book covers a lot of sensitive ground over the eight stories. I would class the majority of these instances as moderate or minor but do proceed with caution.

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cabbagecakes's review against another edition

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dark mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? N/A
Loveable characters? N/A
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

1.0

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_teoeo's review against another edition

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dark fast-paced

3.25

Story 1: 3 ⭐
Was okay but a little too short

Story 2: 3 ⭐
Was unsettling but I'm not sure how I feel about the "abuse"-topic for it could be really triggering especiall with the detailed descriptions

Story 3: 3,5 ⭐
Quite nice, but too short for a propper world building, for it was a bit confusing. Think it would be good as a novel rather that a short story. Good characters and as far as I see it, Six could be autistic? (Update: recently learned that the characters are from one of her books and that makes so much sense!)

Story 4: 2,5 ⭐
Meh...was okay

Story 5: 3,25 ⭐
Quite liked it, wanted to rate ist 3,5 but the ending disappointed a little (not the plottwist but the very end)

Story 6: 4 ⭐
Liked it, would be a great movie, expeciall the parts where he tells about what happened at the farm (and the plottwist!)

Story 7: 4 ⭐
Loved the writing and had a really thrilling atmosphere. It also would be a great (A24) movie

Story 8: 1,75 ⭐
Way to much sexual content for my liking, also my gut turned at the part that seemed to be rape (I don't see how this is necessary as an element of horror.)

All in all the rating is 3,125 and I rounded it up to 3,25 because overall I enjoyed reading the book. Also, I know now that I like anthologies!!

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