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Average rating: 3.83 · 733 ratings · 176 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Last Spirits of Manhattan 3.56 avg rating — 432 ratings — published 2025 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best of Brevity: Twenty Years of Groundbreaking Flash Nonfiction by Zoë Bossiere (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Dinty W. Moore (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Brenda Miller (Contributor) 4.28 avg rating — 322 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 25, October 2008 by Neil Clarke (Goodreads Author), Jim C. Hines (Goodreads Author), John A. McDermott (Goodreads Author) 3.40 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Writhe. Waltz 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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John A McDermott liked Phil Bayly's review of The Last Spirits of Manhattan: " A legendary party is held in New York City during the 1950s. The party is thrown at the request of Hollywood immortal Alfred Hitchcock. The ad agency, which is reliant on Hitchcock's patronage, is merely requested to provide a truly haunted house wi" Read more of this review »
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