Fantasy Friday - Ghosts

As Fridays are the day the Cybrarian (from my kids – young adult book review blog) posts reviews of books from the realm of fantasy, science fiction, and the paranormal, I have decided to use Friday as a day to talk about one the beings from the fantasy guidebook The Destineers Journal of Fantasy Nations that is featured in the book being reviewed by the Cybrarian.

The fantastical beings featured by the Cybrarian this week are ghosts; the name of the book: GHOST FOR RENT. By definition ghosts are described as disembodied spirits of a deceased person trapped between the land of the living and the land of the dead. They are spellbound in limbo, unable to rest because of something they must resolve in our world before they can pass into the next plane of existence.

These ethereal beings can move through solid objects. Their appearance is usually very similar to their mortal body, only now they are translucent. They are often sited in areas that were familiar to them, places they frequented in their mortal form. Humans often refer to this as haunting the area.

Most people, at one time or another, have heard some form of a ghost story. It seems with each retelling the tale gets bigger and even more eerie. These stories are standards when gathered around a campfire, or with the kids when they are huddled under the covers at a sleepover. Folklore and Legends provide the foundation for many of these stories. It was a ghost story stemming from New York folklore that inspired Washington Irving's masterpiece, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. While the purpose of most of these stories is for the entertainment value of scaring those that hear the tale, many of these stories also provide lessons to be learned from the spirits (ie A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens). Some people claim to have had first-hand experiences with these ghostly entities. The characters from my novel in progress have become quite good friends with one of these spirits...it is our own beloved Cybrarian. She and her team of ghost writers weave the stories of the realms into their historical archives...when she is not busy reviewing books for us.

This week’s Cybrarian’s book review explores the adventure packed Paranormal Mystery novel, GHOST FOR RENT , by Penny Lockwood. Why not click over and check it out? Just a thought...


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