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book should go to another world and bother me NO MORE to follow, Pretty entertaining. Fun Halloween read Not the typical Barbara Michaels book, Entails a group of friends sitting around discussing and debunking a few old ghost stories that many would recognize like the Bell Witch, It is entertaining and well written, but fails to really engross the reader and bring you into the author's created world, It's just two well told spooky tales, Numa escura, húmida, noite de nevoeiro, um

pequeno grupo de intelectuais reúnese num clube masculino exclusivo, Chegam envoltos nos seus abafos dispendiosos, com o pretensiosismo de quem sabe mais que a maioria,

Deste grupo, que se junta periodicamente para discutir acontecimentos paranormais, fazem parte o famoso ilusionista Houdini e o afamado Sir Arthur Conan Doyle criador do celebérrimo Sherlock Holmes.


Outros Mundos relata uma dessas reuniões, Num serão frente à lareira, com uma bebida aconchegante no colo, os intelectuais analisam dois episódios distintos: A Bruxa de Bell e O Caso Phelps.
O primeiro é a história de um poltergeist que assombra uma família do sudeste americano o segundo envolve uma família católica a braços com um espírito violento.
Depois dos relatos, os membros do clube todos eles interessados e/ou estudiosos do sobrenatural discutem e determinam se as assombrações são verdadeiras ou falsas.
The men are famous and the time is the past, In a London Club, Houdini, Conan Doyle, and other psychic investigators and debunkers gather to tell ghost stories, Their purpose is to tell the tale, and then each will pick it apart to try to find an explanation for the phenomenon in question.


A really fun read on a rainy Saturday while curled up before the fire, The actual stories those of the "Bell Witch" and a Connecticut haunting were great, thoroughly and enjoyably told,

However, the framework of the "Gentleman's Club" and the group of Doyle, Houdini, et al, was contrived.

The suggestions for solutions were mildly interesting but shallow,

Not sure if I was supposed to recognize the female author or not, but both she and the preacher at the end of the first story seemed like convenient escapes when Ms.
Michaels didn't know how to end the tale,

Not up to par with her other works, Reread on abridged audio. I liked this twoshortghoststory tale more than the first time I read it, but it's still lacking, The Bell Witch and the Phelps case are interesting, the idea of famous detectives, skeptics, and psychical believers still has merit, but the book just doesn't work at all, with no real point to the discussion of the cases and no real resolution.
The portrayal of the Phelps case through a firstperson piece of fiction takes up too much time and is jarring compared to the thirdperson viewpoint in the other part of the book.
There's a bit of Alfred Hitchcock compiled short stories here but there ought to have been more stories to make this more interesting, At the time, it felt like MPM was on a deadline and flung at her publisher two unfinished pieces that they made her link together, and I could be mistaken but I feel like it was the point she stopped focusing on the Michaels gothic and started going full tilt at the Peters Amelia Peabody series.
I guess I could only excuse this mediocrity if she was fulfilling a contract, . . but mediocre Michaels is still miles ahead of topform other authors, The premise was promising, but the work doesn't hang together a bit well, The first night, when the group discusses the Bell Witch, follows the plana series of events are dictated and then the group propose theories about what might really have happened.
The writing in this section is disappointing, The second night deviateswe are treated to a wellwritten story about the Phelps family in Stratford, but the group is given almost no opportunity to discuss it.
It is almost as if this work were published before Ms, Michaels had finished with it, As a huge fan of Barbara Michaels and a collector of her books, there are still some novels I haven't read, This was one of her more recently published novels under the name "Barbara Michaels ", Most are aware of her pseudonym "Elizabeth Peters
The premise was interesting, the synopsis promising a good old fashioned ghost story, which I'm always a sucker for.

There is an imaginary "club " that meets to discuss and theorize about famous cases of paranormal phenomena, The members of this club are Houdini, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Nandor Fodor and a famous crime author,
The first story was the infamous Bell Witch haunting, After a re telling of the famous story, each member explains his own take on what really happened,
This story was just a rehash of theories that have been dicussed for years, Been there, done that.
The second story was not familiar to me, but had many similarities to the first story,
Certainly not Barbara Michaels at her best, A very disappointing read.
Overall a D. “Just like a woman. ” Said one too many times for a book written by a woman and published in, Regardless of the sexism of theth century, Well, the title certainly sounds like it could be creepy and interesting and typical of a Barbara Michaels gothic thriller, The reality, unfortunately, is nothing like her usual tales, I'm sorry, but I found it dry and dull, I recognize the Bell Witch, so I don't expect a satisfying conclusion or indeed, anything from this retelling to be worth this slog.
. . I just can't. Not right now. Maybe I'll pick it up again at a later date, but for now, it's a DNF! I stoppedof the way through, On to greener pastures!

Incidentally, this is the second DNF I have for this author, With the other one, Smoke and Mirrors, I think I quit after the first page or two, because something annoyed me, I peeked at a few reviews, and I had my suspicions confirmed.
Political plot Heavy on the "Democrats are good, Republicans are evil" Oh, good grief! No, thanks! Life's too short, I like most of Barbara Michaels work, She writes beautifully, although her earlier works, like this one, tend to the gothic and melodramatic, This is more like two short stories put together, but they detail two famous cases of poltergeist activity, in the setting of a group of eminent Victorians analyzing the cases to try to come up with an explanation.
Interesting, but not gripping. "We all know, gentlemen, that it is not advisable to allow the ladies to go into trade or follow masculine professions, There is a danger they may find out they are as competent as we!" I appreciate that Michaels was trying something different with this novel which is basically a gathering of Harry Houdini, Arthur Conan Doyle, and some other people telling stories, but it just didn't work.
The book as whole didn't feel cohesive, This book is a fictional meeting between well known ghost enthusiasts and skeptics, They read a ghost story in great detail, then discuss, They do this for two stories, I found it a good recent once I realized what the book was and it's definitely worth at least one read, Someone on Barnes and Noble called this a "horror cozy," which is a description I kind of love, especially in the context of Other Worlds.
This book is a pair of novellas describing two rather famous American poltergeist cases, the inaccurately named Bell Witch and the Stratford haunting, The novellas are connected by a frame story, psychic researchers gathered in a London club to discuss these cases, These are some fairly famous people, by the way Houdini gratifyingly skeptical, Conan Doyle gratifyingly unskeptical, a few others I'm not super familiar with, and someone implied to be the author herself Maybe Agatha Christie, I'm not sure.


Anyway, the conceit of the book is that this club meets every so often to describe hauntings and other spiritual phenomena and to discuss the validity of these events.
Michaels then describes the Bell Witch incident and the Stratford haunting in great and literary detail, And then the two parts differ, In the first, the Bell Witch incident, every person present gets to lay out their own analysis and interpretation of the event, which was easily my favorite part of the book.
It said so much about each person in what they picked out, what they chose to see, what they chose to discount, Unfortunately, the second half of the book more or less stuck with the story and the person telling it possibly our author grandstanding a bit and didn't give us nearly as much discussion.


Basically this book is fine, I don't really remember having any strong feelings about it, I enjoyed it enough to finish it, obviously, but not enough to pick up much else, It was just two ghost stories, followed by an imaginary discussion of the story by A, Conan Doyl, Harry Houdini, etc, I didn't hear a change of voice as the story teller supossedly changed, The discourse was not what I had expected, It was OK for driving in the desert, I didn't have a replacement, But, I'm glad that I didn't buy the book, I really enjoyed the two ghost stories or whatever they were told in this book, I didn't so much care for the talk of the people discussing how the "tricks" could have been done by the various people or children present.
It is too difficult to analyze stories like that without being present to investigate and it also takes all the fun out of it for me.
I just enjoy the creepy stories, It was interesting to think of all of those real people from history being together in a men's club type atmosphere to discuss their opinions but I think I would have been happier if that was left out and one more creepy story was added in it's place.
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