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April 24, 2012
A Ghost Story
That Defies Classification
A review of
T. L. Gray Milledgeville Misfit (Vabella
Publishing, 2012)
178 pp $13.95 ISBN-10:
0983433275 ISBN-13:
978-0983433279
Review Attempted By: Forrest Schultz
Carroll County author
T. L. Gary has written one of the most interesting and mysterious ghost stories
I have ever read, and one that I find impossible to categorize.
At its surprising ending the reader learns that the newly
orphaned Juniper "June Bug" Somerville has helped six ghost orphans
from the twentieth century and that they have helped her. (I cannot tell
you the nature of the help they received without giving away the story,
which is well told, although it is a bit slow at the beginning.) We are not
told how this could have happened without violating the laws of physics.
The rear jacket lets the reader decide, which is a clever ploy!
I recently told someone
that the only adjective adequate to describe the stories of H. P. Lovecraft is
that they are "Lovecraftian". Likewise, I here proclaim that
the only adjective adequate to describe this story by T. L. Gray is to say that
it is "T. L. Grayish"!!
Well, I guess this is
to be expected of an author who has written a story where Cain is still alive
and well and causing mischief. This story, Cain, is about to come
out in a second edition, which I also intend to read
and review.
Information on T. L
Gray is available at www.tlgray.net
and www.vabella.com
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