{"id":8301,"date":"2016-01-22T13:03:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T18:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cemeterydanceonline.com\/?p=7356"},"modified":"2016-01-22T13:03:43","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T18:03:43","slug":"review-familiar-spirits-edited-by-donald-j-bingle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-familiar-spirits-edited-by-donald-j-bingle\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: &#039;Familiar Spirits&#039; edited by Donald J. Bingle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Familiar-Spirits-Donald-J-Bingle\/dp\/0692532951\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1452139947&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7358\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/familiarspirits-200x300.jpg?resize=200%2C300\" alt=\"familiarspirits\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>Familiar Spirits<\/em>\u00a0edited by Donald J. Bingle<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Orphyte, Inc.\u00a0(September 2015)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>131\u00a0pages; $14.99 paperback\/$4.99 e-book<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Reviewed by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AntonCancre\" target=\"_blank\">Anton Cancre<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I grew up with ghost stories, passed down from my mother while sitting around a fire or simply hanging out and chatting after watching the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">X-files<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tales from the Darkside<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. I am sure that\u2019s why I feel such a comfy, cozy connection to them. Admittedly, I warmed up quite a bit when I saw this anthology arrive in the mail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Right off the bat, Sarah Hans kicks the door off the hinges with \u201cThe Cold Earth,\u201d making it clear that this won\u2019t be a simple collection of traditional drafty-old-mansion tales. We are placed square in the POV of our dear departed, a poor girl murdered by her ne\u2019er do well husband, but it doesn\u2019t devolve into the simplistic revenge story it so easily could have. Instead, we are shown a victim working to stop the cycle of violence and predation of the past, instead of simply exacting revenge for it.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From there, we get plenty of good, ghastly tales, but \u201cWhat Happened at the Lake\u201d takes the cake. The exploration of the grief and guilt that come with loss, especially the loss of a child, is not unusual in a ghost story. However, it is rarely done with such brutal, raw honesty, where the absence of the deceased builds the internal horror. We\u2019re pulled in, inch by inch, to the morass of depression that has become this woman\u2019s life. I made the mistake of reading this one while walking the dog and ended up weeping right there on the sidewalk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You don\u2019t get much of the lace-strewn Victorian gothic here, though Lynn Handy\u2019s \u201cGreen Lady\u201d pulls off the air of such tales while slyly subverting them, so fans of that style may be disappointed. However, for people that grew up with tiny, intimate yarns of people tied too tightly to their lost past, there\u2019s plenty familiar to these spirits.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Familiar Spirits\u00a0edited by Donald J. 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