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The Black Stallion's Ghost (The Black Stallion #17)
While riding the Black in the Everglades one day, Alec meets a man astride a ghostly gray mare. Alec’s fascination with the man turns to fear as he realizes the man is dangerously close to insanity. Soon Alec and the Black are caught up in a deadly chase through the depths of the Everglades, where a misstep could be fatal.
Paperback, 208 pages
Published
April 11th 1995
by Yearling
(first published 1969)
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I have a number of this series' books--and some others by Farley. Sooo good (most of them), but this one is a little eerie. Still, it leaves one wanting a bit more and waiting to see if there will be a sequel to this particular book--especially sine the ghost-like mare in the book may be in foal to The Black. Since it is set largely in the Florida Everglades and (even way back then) states dissent over the engineering devices which started to drain the Everglades, I have to admire it if only for...more
Aug 29, 2011
Iziezi
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This is the only book from the Black Stallion series that I kept; This one is a scary horror story, with a raging storm that traps them deep in the Everglade swamps with a sinister stranger. Then a ghost story about a swamp demon begins to come true... *shiver*
I really thought that The Island Stallion Races (remember? ALIENS!) would be enough of a ramble into the world of the alien and supernatural for Farley, but he ventures there again in this completely pointless story. I’m not even going to bother describing the plot. Suffice to say, Alec spends most of the story running around the Everglades in the dark, pursued by some sort of supernatural being/god who scares another guy to death. The book has virtually nothing to do with the Black; a race is t...more
The last few books in this series are really bad and what's really sad is that as much as I hated this one, there are worse books in the series. Re-reading this childhood favorite has been a real love-hate relationship. The books I remember liking the best, I still love. I think the ones I didn't like, I hate even more. In this book Alec and The Black get lost in the Everglades and spend the night with an old man determined to "steal" a mating for his mare with The Black. The night is filled wit...more
I LOVED this book when I was a kind. Granted I was very much in love with creepy books such as Shadow in Hawthorn Bay and anything by Stephen King, so of all the Black Stallion books this one was right down my alley.
I wish I still had a copy of it now because at the age of 33 I would probably still read this every few years. There was just something so deeply haunting about it that brought me back over and over again. I even still dream about it once every couple of years.
I wish I still had a copy of it now because at the age of 33 I would probably still read this every few years. There was just something so deeply haunting about it that brought me back over and over again. I even still dream about it once every couple of years.
Jul 24, 2011
Kiersten
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The horses were beautiful, as always—but the whole tone of the story and the Haitian captain's beliefs were just too creepy for me. The only Black Stallion book I have read to date that I really dislike.
I never realized just how much walter farley could take you into the supernatural world. It completely threw me off balance and I couldn't put the book down. He obviously did his research on the native american folklore for that area, of Florida. Definately a very good book.
Oct 05, 2010
Aisha
marked it as to-read
i like it alot
A ghostly story!!!
YUCK!!! I just wanted to yell at Alec "Go home!!!" It was such a weird book!! One of those books where Alec lives some experience and he falls asleep right before that so you think he is dreaming but he isn't, so it portrays the fact that there are ghosts and the like. There are several books in this series that are the same, and I did not like any of them!!!
Wow. This one may be even worse than the rabid bat one. Or the one with the alien horse race aficionados. Either way, it's near the very bottom of Farley's oat bag. Ludicrous plot. No Henry to speak of. Weird gods. Inexplicable characters who flicker in and out. Give it a miss.
I raced through this series as a child. Of course, "The Black Stallion" was my favorite, and I read it a few times, but I waited eagerly for any of the books to return to my branch of the library so I could snap them up.
The first book was the story of a boy and a horse, but the series grows with books on similar themes of overcoming adversity and animal/human bonding. Loved them as a kid.
This was one of my favorite books in the series. I liked reading about the circus life, and the white horse that performed to cues in the music.
This was a fantastic book. I just started reading for fun becacause of this book and the other stallion books.
May 07, 2011
Jessica
rated it
3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
horse lovers
Recommended to Jessica by:
me
See the first book in the series for a full review.
Jun 11, 2008
Victoria
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In this book it's hard to know what's going on.
Extra 1/2 star.
May 17, 2013
Mdlarson
marked it as to-read
May 15, 2013
Linda
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Walter Farley's love for horses began when he was a small boy living in Syracuse, New York, and continued as he grew up in New York City, where his family moved. Young Walter never owned a horse. But unlike most city children, he had little trouble gaining firsthand experience with horses-his uncle was a professional horseman, and Walter spent much of his time at the stables with him.
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