Review: This Ghost Story Needs More Meat
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 2, 2011
The night he came home...forever.Third-generation funeral director Lizzie Morton is about to have her dream realized.  She has purchased the long abandoned Nichols Funeral Home and its upstairs flat, determined to restore the funeral home to its once former glory.But a late night visitor, Adam Nichols, claims the funeral home still belongs to his family.  Lizzie scoffs at his odd behavior and outlandish claims, but when a vintage photograph appears, she soon realizes, to her horror, that Adam Nichols did once own the funeral home - more than one hundred years ago - and now she has allowed this entity to pass into her home.Saphs's Review:This was a cute short story but I was not too impressed with the length.  This really should be part of an anthology or collection of short stories rather than a stand-alone short story.  Now if the author wants to use this as a sort of prologue for a full length novel then I'm on bard and would definitely read it but this should be part of the novel and stated as the prologue.The above synopsis of the story is pretty much the 5 page (7 pages if you include the covers) novella in a nutshell.It all starts with a knock on Lizzie's door at 3am and continues with her allowing a stranger into her home.  After he makes his way upstairs, all the while claiming that Lizzie's house was his house and she was his assistant, she allows him to bathe and use her guest bedroom.  What happens next I'll let you discover on your own...if you dare.There is sooo much potential...not only for a full length novel but even to expand the short story and give a little more "meat" to it.