The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth (Paperback)

from patrickgarson

At its best, The Bone Key is a really great Victorian ghost story pastiche. But like many anthologies, it has trouble sustaining the level through its many stories. Nonetheless, it was short and always enjoyable. Kyle Murchison Booth is a querulous museum worker with a cursed history and an affin...

from anyanwubutler

Ten delightfully scary ghost tales about museum archivist Kyle Murchison Boothe. Monette writes in her introduction that she loves the stories of MR James and HP Lovecraft, but doesn't love that they didn't write compelling characters. In Boothe, she writes a fascinating character who grows and c...

from paganpaul

The Bone Key is a surprising book. Meet Kyle Murchison Booth, who works in a museum where he catalogues items. In the number of short stories in this book, that follow up on each other and show more and more of Mr. Booth's life, thoughts and past, we encounter all kinds of amazing people, things ...

from narwhaltortellini

A collection of stories all about the awkward, antisocial Kyle Murchison Booth, and his run-ins with the paranormal... When I comment on a book, I often feel I should try to express just what it is this story seems to be trying to accomplish. If something is a really great book, all well and good...

from xicanti

A collection of ten interconnected short stories featuring a socially awkward archivist who finds himself unwillingly involved in a wide variety of supernatural mysteries. Elegant writing, deft characterization and some truly creepy goings-on conspired to draw me straight into this wonderful coll...