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This is a great anthology!!! These are not your typical haunted house stories. Definitely a must read.

This is as fun and rewarding as you might like it to be. By that I mean that the 27 featured tales are perfectly fine and satisfying. There should be something special in there for every reader, and many entertaining runnerups. All of the rest - the tiny tales, the straight-faced but entirely fictitious introductions, the faux serious tone - contribute to a novel and upbeat vibe that gives the whole project a tongue-in-cheek ramshackle charm.

Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology is a great collection that introduces new talents in the horror genre, and also has stories by distinguished horror writers like Ramsey Campbell.

This isn’t your typical anthology about run of the mill haunted houses, as the stories contained within put a new twist on the way hauntings can occur. This opens up a whole new world of hauntings in places and situations that you would least expect.

This stories contained in this book will also appeal to people looking for a more modern twist in the horror genre.

One has to admire the attention to detail that has gone into this massive anthology. There are illustrations corresponding to every short story, down to the extremely tiny tales. The design and formatting work is amazing to say the least.

The illustrations add a sense of reality to the stories- so much so that a person can almost believe that these events actually transpired in the real world.

The paranormal tales from different cultures and places around the world offer a unique insight into what defines a ghost story or a haunting in a different part of the world.

All in all, a very ambitious, detailed and immaculately designed book of short stories. I would definitely recommend it for horror fans.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for sending me an ARC of the book for an honest review.

Note: This is a review of an ARC which I received for free in exchange for an honest review.

Full disclosure: I love travel books. Despite doing very little traveling IRL, I thoroughly enjoy books which take me somewhere new, which immerse me in a new place. I will, when out IRL, go out of my way to visit spooky places.

Haunted places.

Fortunately for me, and the rest of the reading world, Professor Charlatan Bardot (what an awesome name), one of the leading experts on haunted buildings has put together a collection of material about haunted buildings that are NOT houses. The book includes feature stories, which are short story length, and miniature stories which focus on the details of a haunt. Each is accompanied by a geographical marking and illustrations. The book is divided by geographical area.

The stories themselves are compelling and frightening. Most focus on more than just the ghost of the area, but include deep characterization as well. If you are looking to take a trip into a frightening world of terrifying places, pick up Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World.

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 find any of them particularly eerie or haunting. Only one or two of them are even memorable. Then there are 36 “tiny tales” of one page each and at the end of the book are four pages of one paragraph stories. They should have had their own volume. Then there were 16 pages of promotions throughout the book (instead of at the end, where they should have been) about more “horror” books by Dark Moon Books. Added to all that, I don’t speak Spanish or African and there are no translations. Even if it’s just one word, I’d like to know what it is and I’m not going to take the time afterward to look it up. I put a lot of time into getting through this book because the stories really didn’t do anything for me. I did like the short introductions, maps, biographies of the authors, drawings and illustrations. Out of 5 stars, it loses one for just too many (63) stories packed into one anthology, one for all the promotions of other books throughout and one because I wasn’t horrified by any of the stories. Not scared or feeling haunted at all, just disappointed.

I couldn’t wait to read this, and when it showed up on netgalley I jumped at the chance to review it early.

I enjoyed the idea of this “travel guide” to haunted fictional places. Many of the stories left me wishing there was more to them, some of them I wasn’t a fan of. Even though I didn’t fall in love with each and every story I still could not put this novel down.

It was a fun ride through the world of fictional hauntings.

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 reading stories from PROFESSOR CHARLATAN BARDOT’S TRAVEL ANTHOLOGY brought those wonderful memories flooding back.

The ideal gift for lovers of Horror and Travel
Wish it was available in Kindle
Great maps, pictures, and stories

Netgalley is a great place to discover hidden jewel and this is one the best I've ever read.
A fiction guide to haunted places, a collection to short stories by new and well known authors, a graphically gorgeous book.
Now go and buy it.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine