Excellent novel, and highly recommended!' Peanut's review. The Holy Ghost Writer seems a literary time-traveller: the swiftness with which he carries us straight into the 1800s is mind-boggling and a rare feat even in the best historical fiction writing. Through well-defined and multilayered plotlines, the story's laser-point pacing, and rich character building, this work lends the quagmire of adventures, missteps, and danger-filled mysteries a guarantee of unforeseen, adventurous turns and cathartic 'a-ha' insights. We stand next to Mercedes as she lives and breathes we get that rare glimpse into the future of the characters that Alexandre Dumas himself surely intended. We cannot help but run breathlessly alongside them throughout the journey, to imagine the consequences between their words, to ponder on their insights and their woe-filled courses of action. The sequel manages to introduce such a microscopic view into the full-flesh world our colorful characters engage in that readers can't help being sucked in. Amazingly, the prose so closely matches the mood, tone, pacing, and richness of environment of Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo that this feels like the natural continuance of those lives. Haydee, the infamous Villeforts, and even Countess G are lifted from the stalemate of our beloved story and given new life, and readers will also be introduced to a host of colorful new characters (like the memorable Raymee) whose lives, loves, and circumstance flow comprehensively and effortlessly through the entire narrative. New life is breathed into those characters we all knew and loved (or loved to hate) in the original Count of Monte Cristo tale (what can now, finally, be referred to as Book 1). The adventure-laden journeys of Edmond Dantes continues in (Dumas') newly-honed role as investigative reporter who publishes his (original) book as part of (this) story. The mysterious Holy Ghost Writer has penned 'The Sultan of Monte Cristo' as a direct continuance of the story readers have long struggled against leaving behind. It is a grieving of sorts that has long been unmitigable. And four lucky-or unlucky-fans get to find out what it is first hand.'For so many years, passionate fans of The Count of Monte Cristo have suffered a loss upon finishing Alexandre Dumas' last words. The exhibits are so terrifying that the local amusement park asks them for their secret. They turn their house into a museum of torture, sectioning off each room with a velvet rope. Halloween only comes around once a year, and the Justices do it right.

Horror Mansion by J.N. Williamson