· SPARROW HILL ROAD is sure to delight and entertain those looking for a good read. Great characterization, solid world-building, and a whole lot of fun. Originally, this book was a series of twelve short stories published in The Edge of Propinquity, an online semiprozine that ran from to A few years after they closed down, the rights were sold to DAW, and after some editing, those 4/5. · McGuire (the InCryptid series) brings empathy, complexity, and a shivering excitement to this well-developed campfire tale. Many stories have been told about a hitchhiker, a young woman sometimes dressed in a prom dress or jeans and a T-shirt who roams the highways in search of a ride/5(50). Praise for Sparrow Hill Road: "Hitchhiking ghosts, the unquiet dead, the gods of the old American roads—McGuire enters the company of Lindskold and Gaiman with this book, creating a wistful, funny, fascinating new mythology of diners, corn fields, and proms in this all-in /5().
Sparrow Hill Road audiobook (Unabridged) mid; Ghost Stories Series, Book 1 · Ghost Stories By Seanan McGuire. Visual indication that the title is an audiobook. Listen to a Sample. Sign up to save your library. With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. I have had a copy of Sparrow Hill Road by Seanan McGuire on my Kindle since When it got a new cover, I decided it was time to begin, and I am delighted that I did. These shorts were enthralling and filled with ghostly urban legends. Sparrow Hill Road by Seanan McGuire S. McGuire's word-craft is mesmerizing and utterly original! BEST. Ghost story. EVER. More Books by Seanan McGuire. Rosemary and Rue. Every Heart a Doorway. A Local Habitation. Discount Armageddon. Ashes of Honor. An Artificial Night.
Seanan McGuire has developed her own writing style over many years, but here she's not afraid to let Ray Bradbury or Stephen King into the back of the car, and having listened to them, she builds her version of Americana: the roads, the people who move along them and sometimes stop alongside for a while, and the old, falsely familiar places out of legend adjacent to them where her own brand of power, awe and dangerous whimsy has a place. Sparrow Hill Road is actually a fairly straightforward narrative. It is not really a novel so much as a collection of stories that all together tell one bigger story. A typical story switches between related events in two distant times, which may be 20 years apart. Go and talk to the girl in the green silk gown. Who died on Sparrow Hill Road. And when you see her face in the truck- stop light, When the final cock has crowed, Then you’ll go with the girl in the green silk gown. Who died on Sparrow Hill Road. — excerpt from “The Ghost of Sparrow Hill Road,” author unknown.
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