A very fun anthology! Many of the stories were very touching, successfully delivering an international flavor and adding many recommendations for eager readers who get to know of authors they may have not heard of before.

Review in the October 1, 2021 issue of Booklist and on the blog [link is live after 10/18]: https://raforall.blogspot.com/2021/10... Three Words That Describe This Book: original, strong sense of place, eerily realisticDraft review:"Critically acclaimed editor Guignard, has outdone himself with this imaginative, eerily realistic, and fun anthology showcasing 63 Horror authors from all over the world. Featuring anelaborate frame, including the creation of an alter ego-- the fictional, internation...

This book makes great use of graphics and the maps to showcase where all of the haunted buildings are to better illustrate that for readers. Even the shorter entries for each geographic area are engaging and present fascinating locales like Laura Mauro's English Martyrs Underground Station. The anthology is creatively organized as a mixture of longer form short stories as well as shorter featurettes by award-winning editor Guignard, here listed as the fictional Professor Charlaton Bardot's co-ed...

This was such a fun journey around the world! Jam packed with stunning illustrations, references to haunted locations throughout the world and maps; this is a book which is both entertaining and beautiful. It’s set up as a travel guide and sectioned into the main continents of the world with each section containing fictional stories about haunted places in that continent. Each story is introduced by Professor Charlatan, a renowned paranormal investigator. I always appreciate story intros as it a...

Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World edited by by Eric J. Guignard is a collection of tales about hauntings that will leave you chilled.My favorites from this collection include:Que vagi bé by S. Qiouyi LuThe Caretaker’s Hut by Kevin J. Kennedy End of the Road by Ray Cluley One Day at Recess in the Convent of the Blessed Mother on Victoria Street by Christina SngIngraham’s Bookstore by Alan BaxterThe Martha Hotel: Suite

This is a magnificent book, not only because of the quality of the stories (which is amazing) but also due to the overall content, layout, and presentation. I highly recommend owning this in physical format so you can appreciate how incredible this book is as a whole.This travel guide (anthology) of fictional haunted places (not houses) around the world is presented as a real travel guide would be. It is sectioned by global region and has maps, pictures, stories, listings, and so much more, even...

The basics: an excellent collection of stories, full of ghosts and hauntings and things that go bump in the night.The premise: Professor Charlatan Bardot (Charlie to his friends) is "the world's leading travel documentarian in international architectural paranormal investigations". The esteemed professor has gathered tales from around the world of haunted locales. But these are not haunted houses. The professor thinks haunted houses are yesterday's news. These are department stores, factories, f...

Fantastic travelogue to the most famous (fictional) haunted places in the world! Beautiful illustrations, graphs and maps make this unique book not only a beautiful edition to any bookcase but a spooky read as well. I’ll be brief as I’ve ordered the book rather then try to complete my review from a small ebook. More updates to come. Released now, go and get a copy for yourself and it’s the perfect gift for all the scary story lovers in your life. Enjoy!

This is an excellent anthology with a ton of material. There are enough stories in here that this could easily be several anthologies, and yet the quantity in no way diminishes the quality. The mix of short stories and flash fiction combined with the artwork and maps and the editorial musings of Charlatan Bardot all come together for something truly unique and wonderful.

I love the awesome cover for Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology by Eric Guignard. Some of the locales are real places, and, the rest, I’ll leave it up to you to decide.The anthology includes short stories of horror from noted authors all over the world. Whether it takes place in a hospital, lighthouse, mining camp, wishing well…most everything but haunted houses, the anothology is sure to supply plenty of thrills and chills.Might want to keep the light on…but, locked doors won’t keep

I'm going to be brief here. The title is a mouthful and the pages are a feast for the eyes and imagination. Illustrations, maps, and travel notes all combine to make fiction feel like reality.The stories take you on a trip around the world, where you will become acquainted with several haunted places all from the safety of your favorite reading spot. Multiple authors with their own distinctive style add a unique flair and flavor to this anthology.There are hauntings that occur in the usual place...

What an incredible book! Set up as a world wide travel guide to haunted buildings, this book is filled with stories told by people of the famous haunted building from their country. With maps, illustrations, and even ads; this is fun to pick up and flip through or sit down and read straight through. When I was a kid I loved looking through books that had random facts. My brother and I could spend hours flipping through The Big Book of Amazing Facts or our picture dictionary. Looking through and

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My full review of the book is ready to appear elsewhere. I just want to warn you that in order to fully enjoy all the aspects of this extraordinary volume ( illustrations, maps etc) you should secure a physical copy.Among the various full- lenght contributions, the stories by Clara Madrigano, Ramsey Campbell, Eugenia Triantafyllou, Thersa Matsuura, Kaaron Warren, Jeffrey Ford and Jackson Kuhl are especially standing out.

5 Stars at least. 6 Stars if possible. This book is incredible. So what is so great about it? The scope of the project itself. A world wide tour of haunted buildings which are fictional. Take a little bit of this and a little bit of that and add the drop of imagination. You might learn some culture of the places as well. You will meet writers from foreign countries. The title of the book gleams you in as being a sourcebook of haunted places though fictional. The eminent Professor Charlatan Bardo...

4.5 stars!PROFESSOR CHARLATON BARDOT'S TRAVEL ANTHOLOGY TO THE MOST (FICTIONAL) HAUNTED BUILDINGS IN THE WEIRD, WILD WORLD, edited by Eric J. Guignard, was one of the most unique books I have read in a while! The stories were great, but what honestly impressed me the most was the set-up, illustrations, format of the physical copy. It was just so "different", that you wanted to keep reading more. I'm not sure how the eBook is in comparison, but I really enjoyed this one. It's definitely one to ke...

An incredibly beautiful and well-constructed anthology project tying in 60+ authors from around the world, writing stories about haunted buildings, while all framed as an interactive tour guide to visit, with maps, sidebars, illustrations. Just an amazing forward-thinking original book. I wish to see this as a series!

Let me start by saying that this review will be filled almost to the brim with crazy understatements. If it sounds hyperbolic at times just know this is a super cool anthology and it would impossible to overstate the amount of work involved in this project. I have been on the record on many Dark Moon books. I think Eric’s primer series is so good. Guinard really knows how to put a collection together and give the reader value not just in content but the product of the books.This anthology whose

I would like to thank NetGalley, editor Eric J. Guignard and Dark Moon Books. I received an advance review copy of this book for free and I am leaving this review voluntarily. I really wanted to like this book but came away unimpressed. I love short stories and I love horror. What could go wrong? This anthology was just too much and too long. There are 27 feature stories about haunted places from all over the world, none of which was very long. That would have been enough for me because I didn’t...

–>I received a free copy of this in exchange for an honest review.<–The fictional paranormal investigator Charlatan Bardot shows us ghost stories collected from all over the world together with his thoughts on each tale, pictures, and even the coordinates of the haunted places. It's quite an interesting idea and the collection is carried by this concept pretty well.There were a lot of stories and honestly it felt like too many. The quick flash fiction pieces somewhat lost their bite because if y...