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Average rating: 3.82 · 764 ratings · 180 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Last Spirits of Manhattan 3.54 avg rating — 460 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 — 324 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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John A McDermott liked Dianne Landry's review of The Last Spirits of Manhattan: "Alfred Hitchcock wants to host a party in a haunted house but according to everyone in the know there are no ghosts left in Manhattan. Again, proof that experts don't always know everything. Pete Donoff is tasked with finding the perfect house and he" Read more of this review »
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