Bram Stoker Award Finalist Ronald Malfi is on quite a hot streak in 2022.
From Come With Me to Black Mouth, Malfi has been churning out some stunning novels and has now taken on an anthology entitled Ghostwritten.
Keeping with the theme of its title, Malfi has constructed four stories based around writing itself and although tonally quite different, they all hit the spot.
The Skin of Her Teeth sees a cursed novel that leads people to their death. This story has a slow build up but once it hits its stride is a great.
In The Dark Brothers’ Last Ride, we follow a delivery that becomes deadly once the full scale of the package becomes clear. Malfi shows great restraint in dripfeeding this story out until its chaotic conclusion.
This Book Belongs to Olo sees Malfi following a lonely, yet dangerous child who may have supernatural powers linked to a certain book.
Concluding Ghostwritten we have The Story, which sees a former boyfriend investigating the death of his ex-girlfriend and gets more than he bargained for. Arguably this is the highlight of the book, as it has shocks plus a real slow-burn quality that will have you devouring it in a handful of sittings.
I couldn’t put Ghostwritten down.
Ghostwritten by Ronald Malfi is released on 4 October 2022 from Titan Books.
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