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Ghost Music
The dead cant seek justice can they? - Gideon Lake, a successful composer, is immediately smitten by Kate Solway, who lives below him. They begin a passionate affair, and Kate invites him to Europe so that they can be together without her husband finding out. But when Gideon witnesses all kinds of strange and terrifying events, he soon realizes that nothing in Kates world...more
Paperback, 256 pages
Published
November 1st 2009
by Severn House Publishers
(first published 2009)
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Ghost Music has a certain Gatsbyesque quality to it, at first; the delicate woman who is married to the violent and boorish man and the thoughtfully quiet man who loves her from a distance. You soon find out that the book is much more than just a love story. Gideon is drawn to Kate in a way that confuses him and their bond is strong. However, things in his new building get stranger and stranger until it become apparent that something odd, even ghostly is going on. As Gideon's affair with Kate pr...more
Prolific horror novelist Graham Masterton veers away from his usual style of graphic, stomach-wrenching terror with Ghost Music, presenting readers with a haunting, yet faintly charming ghost story.
Jingle-writer Gideon Lake experiences love at first sight when he sees Kate Solway gazing at him through the window. Despite the fact that Kate lives in the apartment downstairs with her husband Victor, Gideon can't help but embark on a passionate affair with the gray-eyed beauty. When Kate begins tak...more
Jingle-writer Gideon Lake experiences love at first sight when he sees Kate Solway gazing at him through the window. Despite the fact that Kate lives in the apartment downstairs with her husband Victor, Gideon can't help but embark on a passionate affair with the gray-eyed beauty. When Kate begins tak...more
"One door opens and another closes. But don't forget that doors never open and close by themselves. There are people walking through them, even if there aren't always people to be seen."
A refreshing take on the age-old theme of revenge and justice extracted from beyond the grave, GHOST MUSIC ticks all the right boxes for me. The protagonist, Gideon Lake, is a musician - a composer who works mainly in the commercial sector, creating jingles for advertising. However, his musical sensitivity has gi...more
A refreshing take on the age-old theme of revenge and justice extracted from beyond the grave, GHOST MUSIC ticks all the right boxes for me. The protagonist, Gideon Lake, is a musician - a composer who works mainly in the commercial sector, creating jingles for advertising. However, his musical sensitivity has gi...more
I guess nothing annoys me more than when a reasonably intelligent and observant character behaves like an incurious, oblivious idiot just because the author needs him to in order to sustain the suspense of the narrative. I got so far ahead of the narrator of GHOST MUSIC that I lost all respect for –and subsequently interest in – him. Among other things, he seems to be unaware of the existence of computers or the internet until the last 15 pages of the story, when he finally does some Googling an...more
Gideon Lake is a composer of advertising jingles and the occasional film score. It’s not quite as prestigious as the connotations you generally get from the word “composer”, but his work has been very lucrative and he’s just moved into a swanky new apartment. When he meets his neighbour Kate they’re instantly drawn to each other and waste no time in starting an affair, despite the fact that Kate’s extremely temperamental husband Victor owns the apartment below Gideon’s.
Kate is suspiciously keen...more
Kate is suspiciously keen...more
From the first page you’re taken into a gruesome and sometimes frustratingly bizarre story. For more than half of the book you’re truly unsure of what is going on. Every time you think you’ve figured it out something happens that blows your theory out of the water. Everything is eventually pieced together and a clear and disturbing picture presents itself. I probably wouldn’t categorize this story as horror (although there was some very disturbing content) but more of a mystery. All-in-all, I’d...more
3.5 I think it is extremely hard to write a ghost story that doesn't seem completely inane especially since by its very nature you are asking the reader to expend a measure of disbelief. Masterson has managed to do just that, once the reader manages to get over the fact that Gideon would have an affair with someone who he believes is his neighbors wife and than after only 2 meetings decide to fly to Switzerland with her, the rest of the book is scary and entertaining. Loved the premise, the char...more
Gideon Lake is a musician who writes commercial jingles. He has just moved into a new apartment and looking forward to starting his life when he meets Kate Solway. It’s love at first sight, with the only problem being Kate’s husband. Kate invites Gideon on a European vacation where things start to go slightly off kilter. Gideon is slowly drawn in to Kate’s life and her plans for revenge on her husband. I have a soft spot for a chilling ghost story and this was one of the best I’ve read since HEA...more
3.5 stars
Moving into a new and very expensive apartment, Gideon Lake (known as Lalo), glimpses his neighbor leaving the building with her husband and is immediately smitten. Upon meeting her face to face he invites her to lunch in his apartment and their affair begins, quickly moving onto a trip to Europe together. And this is where it all started to get a bit unreal for me. I’m sure there are some fools in the world that would just jaunt off to Europe (alone, they don’t travel together) and go...more
Moving into a new and very expensive apartment, Gideon Lake (known as Lalo), glimpses his neighbor leaving the building with her husband and is immediately smitten. Upon meeting her face to face he invites her to lunch in his apartment and their affair begins, quickly moving onto a trip to Europe together. And this is where it all started to get a bit unreal for me. I’m sure there are some fools in the world that would just jaunt off to Europe (alone, they don’t travel together) and go...more
Like the Ghost Music that Gideon plays, this book moves along melodically, leaving you haunted, but satiated at the end. This book is a psychological thriller that will leave you with chills down your spine, and a must read for anyone who has ever wondered what it's like to have sex with a ghost.
Jan 15, 2012
Mary Chrapliwy
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Not wild about this one.
Graham Masterson gives an interestig ghost story here, but ... ghosts that cook real meals? Also, the book seriously sagged in the middle and nearly lost me. I did push myself to finish it. It had an interesting concept, but didn't ultimately satisfy.
Graham Masterson gives an interestig ghost story here, but ... ghosts that cook real meals? Also, the book seriously sagged in the middle and nearly lost me. I did push myself to finish it. It had an interesting concept, but didn't ultimately satisfy.
The ending could have been a lot better ... there was so much buildup to get the ending and it fell so short ... it's like he got tired of writing or something and it leaves you kind of mad and wanting something better than what was written.
Another great story by Masterton, this one is much more of a whodunit, sorta like a haunted ghostly romantic whodunit. The always fleshed out characters and realistic detailed settings really make this work and though at times the mystery aspect of it felt a bit frustrating, it all made perfect sense in the end. I highly recommend this one.
Perhaps because I figured out the premise and ending of this book within the first couple chapters, but I just generally wasn't all that excited about this book. It wasn't particularly thrilling or suspenseful.
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Graham Masterton was born in Edinburgh in 1946. His grandfather was Thomas Thorne Baker, the eminent scientist who invented DayGlo and was the first man to transmit news photographs by wireless. After training as a newspaper reporter, Graham went on to edit the new British menis magazine Mayfair, where he encouraged William Burroughs to develop a series of scientific and philosophical articles whi...more
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