Help For The Haunted, by Tim Prasil
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About the time when Houdini and Conan Doyle feuded over spiritualism, a crusading journalist named Vera Van Slyke attended and defrauded a séance led by one Lida Prasilova. This rough meeting blossomed into a lifelong friendship centered upon the exploration and explanation of when ghosts are not real, but also when they are! Vera and Lida's many adventures are documented here, in this wonderful collection of stories that will bring about as many smiles as hairs standing upon the back of one's neck. Join Vera and Lida as they prowl lonely mansions, bustling theatres, and underground train tunnels to unravel the mysteries of the spirit world and provide HELP FOR THE HAUNTED.
Help For The Haunted, by Tim Prasil- Amazon Sales Rank: #1634869 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-19
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.02" h x .73" w x 5.98" l, 1.05 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 324 pages
Review "The stories are fun with a mixture of skepticism and the supernatural." - Katherine Nabity, The Writerly Reader"I've read a sample, and this book has all the earmarks of a true gem." - Brian P. Easton, The Autobiography of a Werewolf Hunter
About the Author Tim Prasil -- it rhymes with fossil -- writes prose fiction along with stage and audio drama. His auido drama anthology, Marvellous Boxes, was produced and posted to the Web by The Decoder Ring Theatre. Two of those productions were selected for broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. His Chronological Bibliography of Early Occult Detectives has revised the standard history of occult-detective fiction, tracing the cross-genre back to 1817. Along with other features and news about Tim's writing, the bibliography can be found at timprasil.wordpress.com.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Cheers! By Patricia Macvaugh What a delightful read -- funny, sophisticated, and thoroughly engaging. Strangely, since reading this, I've become more aware of the rich history of ghost sightings. The day I finished Help for the Haunted, I was reading an article in the Smithsonian magazine about Colorado, which included Isabella Bird's experience with the ghost of Rocky Mountain Jim Nugent. A story on NPR mentioned someone's fascination with seances. I can't seem to shake this new fascination. Each of the episodes in Help for the Haunted is a perfect gem, but after reading them all, you realize how much you've learned about Vera Van Slyke and Lida Prasilova, two beer imbibing, independent, clever women. Can't wait to read more!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. I don’t usually like ghost stories By Mellow Full disclosure: The author of “Help for the Haunted” is married to my daughter.Fuller disclosure: I don’t usually like ghost stories. I bought the book mainly to be a thoughtful mother-in-law.Fullest disclosure: I thoroughly enjoyed “Help for the Haunted”, and would heartily recommend it. The author sets these stories in period of history to which he has devoted his doctoral and professorial passion; therefore, the historical references to people, places, and events are authentic. I found myself fact-checking on my computer to see which people were real and which were inventions.The stories themselves are well told, imaginatively clever and inventive, skillfully blending humor, mystery, and suspense.Perhaps one of my favorite things about of the book is the progression of the friendship between Vera and Lida, as their own personal histories gradually unfold to one another.Besides that, reading the book was just plain fun. I heartily recommend it.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Good Female Characters, Fun Occult Detection By Nina Zumel When I realized who the ghost was in the first story of Tim Prasil's new collection Help for the Haunted, I knew I was in for a good time.The rest of the volume didn't disappoint. Help for the Haunted is a fun collection of linked short stories, based around a creative theory as to why ghosts are able to return to the plane of the living, and a cute way of detecting these crossovers. Within that framework fall all manner of ghosts and manifestations; every story offers a different kind.The tales are tightly enough coupled and have enough progression that I'm tempted to categorize the book as a "short story cycle" style novel. The narrator is the author's great-grandaunt Lida Prasilova, writing about her adventures with early twentieth century muckraker journalist and occult detective Vera Van Slyke.I love the rapport between Vera and Lida. They're like a beer-drinking, ghost-hunting, female Holmes and Watson. Like Holmes, Vera's mind is dedicated wholly to the information she needs for her job. She's not much for literature (classical or popular), and she's hilariously bad with names. She doesn't have much to do with the opposite sex, mostly I think because they can't handle her. Lida was a fraudulent medium, whom Vera unmasked. She agrees to help Vera with her exposé of the Spiritualism industry, Spirits Shouldn't Sneeze (what a great title), and eventually becomes Vera's assistant -- and dearest friend.There are also some delightful details hidden throughout for fans of the occult detective genre. Vera's mentor is one Harry Escott, a character featured in two stories by Fitz-James O'Brien, one of which, "A Pot of Tulips," was for a time considered the earliest tale in the occult detective genre (The author's chronology, on his website, gives that honor to E.T.A Hoffman's "Das öde Haus" -- at least for the time being). I also caught a name-check to a character in the 1970s occult detective TV series Kolchak, which I believe is the author's favorite show. So there may be other Kolchak references, too, that I missed.Although these are ghost stories, they aren't especially scary -- these are more detective stories that happen to be about the supernatural. Which is just fine with me.If you like occult detective stories, definitely check these out.Recommended.
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