Thin Air: The most chilling and compelling ghost story of the year

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but it is also such a satisfying ghost story, so perfect for these darker evenings, and it is wrapped within a beautifully told and sad tale. Paver is particularly skilled at painting a locale that is highly atmospheric, dislocating, and eerie. It is original in conception yet retains enough "traditional" elements to appeal to lovers of the "classic ghost story" - not least that lingering doubt that, all along, the hauntings might have been tricks of a mind starved of oxygen. If I had any desire to climb a mountain it's totally erased now(I am scared) The atmosphere is impeccable.

Thin Air: The most chilling and compelling ghost story of the Thin Air: The most chilling and compelling ghost story of the

Is he imagining things, or is there something - or someone - on the mountain, that is watching them? Thin Air: A Ghost Story fitted the bill perfectly for me, this is more the the sort of story that is eerie and chilling and unsettling as opposed to scary. In fact, I believe keeping the apparitions largely off the page aided in ensuring the raptness of my attention and the fear I shared with the explorers. Thin Air is a creepy, compelling tale of a Himalayan climbing expedition, where strange events on the mountain stir dread and panic. This haunting new novel and long-awaited sequel to the chilling Dark Matter by Michelle Paver certainly doesn’t disappoint.

Paver does a good job mimicking the voice of a British explorer in the George Mallory/Edmund Hillary vein (or rather such a man's slightly more sympathetic younger brother). Perhaps all the King and Herbert I’ve read have desensitised me to more subtle horror and if that’s the case then I’m deeply sad about it. so Jack - a poor, depressed, dog-hating, lower class and very class conscious 28-year-old - finds the perfect solution to his angst and alienation: he will join a small expedition to the abandoned mining outpost of Gruhuken in the Arctic circle. Because of this, combined with the likability of everyman narrator Stephen Pearce, I was pulled in from the beginning.

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I really wanted to like this book, and it was a quick read however I did not feel anything for the majority of the characters (I didn't mind the main character).The context of "Thin Air" is a 1935 expedition to the summit of the Kangchenjunga in the Himalayas, the third highest peak in the world. and he's a loyal dog too, which is sorta like saying a cat has claws because all good dogs are loyal dogs, but still it has to be said. The hugely successful Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series arose from Michelle's lifelong passion for animals, anthropology and the distant past—as well as an encounter with a large bear in a remote valley in southern California. In this regard, Michelle Paver's "Thin Air" - much like its predecessor Dark Matter - is not your typical ghostly tale since it is the very remoteness of the haunted spaces which makes the setting particularly eerie.

Thin Air – Michelle Paver

She was brought up in Wimbledon and, following a Biochemistry Degree from Oxford, she became a partner in a big City law firm. A team of five Englishmen, including narrator Stephen Pearce and his brother "Kits", set off in the footsteps of a disastrous 1907 expedition, made famous through the memoirs of its leader Edmund Lyell. The setting is immersive and thorough, and as the characters ascend the mountain, the cold, darkness they experience just about jumps off the page. I found it utterly spellbinding and somewhat terrifying, whilst at the same time being able to feel the cold and sense the dread on top of a mountain. Paver’s elegantly-crafted ghost story holds you in a vice-tight grip… Thin Air is an edge-of-your-seat reading experience that will leave you frosty-fingered and shivering as you hurriedly leaf through its pages to reach its startling climax.So used are we to the traditions of the genre that a description of a decrepit mansion full of dark corners and unexplained creaks is enough to raise in us readers expectations of phantoms and ghouls.

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DARK MATTER is one of the books I have been most proud to publish – truly dark and terrifying” says Jon Wood, Publisher of the Orion Publishing Group. There's just something about the bleakness, the sheer depth of the isolation and the unfamiliarity of this terrain to me that I love in this book. Grab this book and snuggle up tight under the covers – and resist the urge to pull back the curtains and look out the window; you never know what might be staring back at you. The descriptions of how the men and their Sherpa's set off and built their camps as they begin their assent is well written - the attention to detail is particularly fascinating. She is the author of Without Charity, A Place in the Hills, The Shadow Catcher and Fever Hill all published by Corgi.

In Thin Air, a troubled doctor narrates an attempt in 1935 by five Englishmen on Kangchenjunga, the Himalayan mountain more deadly than Everest. This book combined so many genres that I love: horror, historical fiction, paranormal, and adventure. perfectly executed little ghost story set in the Arctic wastes in the late 1930s, featuring the adventures of AN AWESOME HUSKY NAMED ISAAK and I suppose some humans as well. Indeed, the first part of the book has the feel of a vintage "Boys' Own" issue, or a long-lost Conan Doyle novel. Michelle Paver’s descriptions of Himalayan mountain-climbing are terrifyingly lifelike — the lashing winds, glittering ice: you can see it all.