Book Review: Ghost Teller by GTT (Link at bottom.)
Quote: Are ghosts as terrifying as they may seem?
We like to think not.
Humans will fight.
And hurt.
And kill.
Over, and over. And over again.
Yet you call us worse than them?
The grim reaper, the maiden ghost in white, the creepy child ghost, the sexy succubus, the horned demon, and the headless ghost have set their table up for a night of stories.
Stories of lust, greed, anxiety, betrayal, love, and insecurity. But most importantly, they are cruel. The grim reaper begins with: What I'm about to tell you, is more terrifying than any ghosts. It is a tale of humans.
So each of our paranormal narrators picks a tale, each tale beautifully illustrated and at the core of each story is human greed.
The Story of Woman: deals with an insecure woman who gets 'perfect life and happiness' in exchange for two tragedies. And how this deal manifests. It was predictable but it was a satisfying end.
The Story of this Place, a new nun joins an orphanage that is being harassed by management and has an alarming rate of child death. It was creepy and shows how lovesickness can drive us to do crazy thing.
The Story of Photographer: a photographer is hired by an actress to capture pictures of her cheating professor husband his student. But the girl dies and the photographer misses the exact moment of her demise, but he has to find out if it is a murder or an accident. This story was my favourite, it was predictable but the twist was brutally placed and it had no poetic justice.
The Story of their Love: was about a local leader and his beautiful wife, set against a mass protest. It was scary story and sad one.
The Story of Son: was story of a son who escapes his poverty-stricken life and is ashamed of his father and how his life has a Greek Tragedy fall.
The Story of her Truth: shows us what rumours and nasty behaviour of netizens can do. The side effects of celebrity obsession culture are more tragic than we think. This story made me feel sad the most.
I loved the art, it's inspired by Korean mythology, socioeconomic politics, and culture. What I loved most was there is no poetic justice, just selfish humans whose justice awaits at hands of Grim Reaper.
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