Ghost Writer

Name: Ghost Writer
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ISBN: 9780156032322

ISBN-10: 0156032325

ISBN-13: 9780156032322

Edition: 2004

Authors: John Harwood

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In this tantalizing tale of Victorian ghost stories and family secrets, timid, solitary librarian Gerard Freeman lives for just two things: his elusive pen pal Alice and a story he found hidden in his mother's drawer years ago. Written by his great-grandmother Viola, it hints at his mother's role in a sinister crime. As he discovers more of Viola's chilling tales, he realizes that they might hold the key to finding Alice and unveiling his family's mystery-or will they bring him the untimely death they seem to foretell? Harwood's astonishing, assured debut shows us just how dangerous family skeletons-and stories-can be.

Book details

List price: $20.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 6/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English

John Harwood is the author of two previous novels of Victorian Gothic suspense. Aside from fiction, his published work includes biography, poetry, political journalism and literary history. His acclaimed first novel, The Ghost Writer, won the International Horror Guild's First Novel Award. He lives in Hobart, Australia.



“For those of us who love the tradition of literary high


Victorian Gothic –



The Ghost Writer is a feast, but you don’t need any prior knowledge of these other writers to savor the pure pleasure of reading this book.


The fissures in the text that let in a gust of modernity – computers, emails – just lift it into real, pure horror.


It is also mordantly funny!


That is sheer genius – to make me terrified and laughing all at once.


A tour de force.” –



Author of Seven Tales of Sex and Death “


Harwood has an extraordinary knack of feeling


His way into the style, vocabulary and characteristic


Preoccupations of the great ghost story writers of the 19th and early 20th centuries


He never puts a foot wrong


The skill and verve of these stories are undeniable and irresistible


Harwood is an expert at pacing his narrative, generating


suspense and conjuring up things that go bump in the night.”


– Sydney Morning Herald