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Pros
The ghost club by william meikle is an informal gathering of the literary icons of the victorian age. The ghost club is about a group of authors having an informal dinner party but in order to be admitted they have to submit a story. A smoky club.
The immortal leo tolstoy tells a tale about another famous writer, poet robert burns. A railroad junction master, in the dead of winter, finds he’s out of *. At the molenzki junction by anton checkov - a winter quest for * encounters both wolves and a... Read More
Wee davie makes a friend - robert louis stevenson. Young davie is an unwell boy and is often bedridden.
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Quality
But, even if one of his most famous works didn't involve ghosts (to say nothing of dorian gray), the quality would justify its inclusion.
Meikle has done a wonderful job in keeping with the cadence of each author.
The quality of meikle’s imitations of those writers i can’t, for the most part, speak to.
My ho-hum reaction was solely because of my familiarity with the concept.
Packaging/appearance
Meikle does a very good job of mimicking the the style and content of each writer.
Having more than mastered doyle’s style in other stories he has written and perhaps saving the best for last, meikle has sir ar... Read More
The ghost club is interesting in that meikle took on the personna of 14 other writers as if this was a long lost book they had ... Read More
Competitiveness
An exquisitely told tale of a haunted chess set.
A mississippi steamship captain makes a terrible mistake and unfortunately, all of the passengers and crew pay the price.
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victorian, each and most. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is high deception involved.
- Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 59.4% of the reviews are reliable.
- This product had a total of 69 reviews as of our last analysis date on Feb 2 2023.
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I think its partly the restraint of them
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Not restraint in the amount of words they used some of them can be a bit
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Wordy but in their topics and what they were and were not allowed to say
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I may not have been so eager if i hadnt known the author was william meikle
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As anyone who has read his carnacki books can attest mr
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The only ones that im not 100 sure on were the authors whose works i am not very familiar with such as jules verne h
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I always had trouble getting into his stories
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The foreword at the beginning has a cleverly worded paragraph about the dubious authenticity of the find that i thought was amusing
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