Product Description
9282 Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition"Continue your tour of the Ravens Bluff campaign setting, the brightest spot on the Dragon Reach. Meet Jack Mooney, propritor, manager, and ringmaster of the Realms' largest traveling circus. Lucky visitors receive invitations to our 'Party on Embassy Row,' where intrigue and high society collide. Visit Lord Mayor Charles Oliver O'Kane's study for a quick peek at Elminster's nesses, personalities, and officials- including the Vulture, the city's infamous tax collector. All stops on your tour will add adventure to your travels in the FORGOTTEN REALMS campaign setting"64 pages ... Read more

Book Description
Here, in this new original collection, are ghost tales to frighten, mysteries to solve, histories to dig up, and skeletons to bury.

Includes stories by:

Roland Green

Brian A. Hopkins
Lisanne Norman
Andre Norton
Bruce Holland Rogers
Michael A. Stackpole
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
and others ... Read more

Customer Reviews (4)

No Ghost Stories Here!
As anyone with a fondness for the genre knows, a "ghost story" is not any story with something labeled a "ghost" in it; a ghost story offers an encounter with the unknown and unexplained, a meeting with something that is outside the realm of the expected. Ghost stories contain elements of suspense. By such a definition most of the stories in this piece are not ghost stories.
I do not blame the writers -- some of the stories are decently written. I do blame the editors for imagining these action yarns constitute ghost stories.
The first, "Fighting Spirits" is a supernatural confrontation with some monsters from beyond. No ghostly suspense; just a fight scene. The second, "Jennie in the Field" is a ghost story, but not a particularly well-written one. The third, Andre Norton's "Ravenmere," is an exception -- an excellent little story. "In the Charnel House," apparently attempts to be a Kafkaesque morality play but leaves me looking at an over-played and insufficiently justified moral. "When You're Dead" is an adventure / escape story "ghosted up" by a too easily labeled Harry Houdini. "Spirit of Honor" is an Oriental sword & sorcery piece, not a ghost story.
Get the idea?
This is definitely the most disappointing ghost story anthology I've purchased (and I've purchased more than a few).

Excellent, subtle horror
The cover caught my attention, and so I bought it. I'm waiting for the next volume. There's Houdini's ghost, Helen Keller's, some WWII guys, all of them excellent and most of them with surprising, twists. My favorites were Jimmy Hoffa's ghost and Andre Norton's story.

You said scary stories.HA ha ha.........
This book doesn`t keep the promises.As you read the title you expect to be intertained with SCARY stories about ghosts but once I began to read it I soon give up because this book is SO boring.
Some cold air,a small strange noise and a little mist and that is all.I don`t know where those writers picked up their ghost???? stories.

Amazing detail
Historical hauntings kept me up all night. I couldn't think about anything else until I was finished with the book. Vivid detail in every object. My only complaint is that it's waaaay too short. But other than that, highly reccomended. ... Read more