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The waiting room stands on a crumbling railway platform at the edge of a retired rock star’s vast estate. Abandoned to dereliction and isolated by a moat of thorny wilderness, it used to be a playground for his children. Until strange music and the terrifying spectre of a leering soldier frightened them away. Julian Creed is TV’s most popular ghost hunter. Only his small production team knows he is a complete fake who doesn’t even believe in the paranormal. Until he spends one night in the waiting room.

©2010 F.G. Cottam (P)2014 Audible, Inc. Genre Fiction Ghosts Horror Literary Fiction Haunted Scary Fiction
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This is one of those books which I used to tide me over until my Audible credit arrives tomorrow. It was enjoyable enough, but I've already forgotten half of the characters' names. I likes the Wilfred Owen references as I'm a fan of his poetry...but later on in the book his ghostly echoes become heavy-handed and end up taking you out of the creepy suspense of the tale. It wasn't a total loss. I think I paid £5.99 for this on sale and it was worth that. If I had spent my monthly credit on it though, I think I would have been disappointed.

Review: "The Waiting Room" by F.G. Cottam

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From the start the story gripped and the narrator was excellent. The main characters were very well drawn and appealing.

Engrossing mystery

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Given that we have the anniversary of the outbreak of WW1, it is an interesting way that details about that time are squeezed into the narrative. I’ve not really watched TV shows about this kind of thing, and you don’t have to have done so to appreciate this unusual plot technique used by the author to combine modern and the period plotlines.

There is a love story woven in, but unlike Hollywood style – got to plonk a love interest in, it does add to plot very nicely. Don’t let that out you off if you are not a romance kind of reader, it is just really well woven in, the main thing is the mystery of how this all can be possible in the twentieth century.
Very clever, and the narration builds the suspense superbly.

modern take on an old fashioned ghost story

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This story started off really spooky and I had high hopes for it. Unfortunately it lost it's way towards the end and I wished it had been better.

Spooky beginning

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I like a real ghost story that does not degenerate into hordes of vampires sinking their fangs into skinny girls or zombies walking the earth and running parliament. This was it. Start to finish, it had the right atmospheric "ambience" to it, helped immensely by the brilliant narration of David Rintoul. The ending was slightly disappointing, but I will find myself avoiding any empty, lonely buildings from now on, especially if they are on an abandoned railway line!

A Good Ghost Story

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