Reviews for “A Man Among Ghosts”

5.0 out of 5 stars Our hero's are back but that's not all

All our favorite heroes are back and along with them are some fun new allies! But will they be enough? For old evil returns and it's being helped by some powerful new collaborators. Land of the Dead delivers another exciting gothic horror adventure. A well paced story with some new good and not so good characters that I’d love see again in the future! —Mitch, Amazon Review

5.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining historical urban fantasy. Well done.

Very fun follow-up to the two previous Wilde and Stoker books. Nicely crafted historical urban fantasy. I immensely enjoyed all three books. —Jeff, Amazon Review

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended

This series is a favourite of mine as I always find the stories entertaining and gripping.
This is another excellent novel featuring Stoker/Wilde and the usual cast of historical characters plus a couple of new ones (Tesla, Roosvelt).
Our heroes deal with revenants, revengeful spirits, and other worlds in a fast paced and compelling novel.
I read it as fast as I could and it's strongly recommended. —Annarella, Amazon Review

5.0 out of 5 stars Another exciting adventure for Stoker and Wilde!

I think we all need a series that we fan out just a little bit on (or in my case a lot bit) and for me, Stoker's Wilde is one of those series. It has such an awesome cast of characters from The Stokers to Teddy Roosevelt saving the world from the forces of supernatural evil. And really can you think of any historical figures than Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, and Teddy Roosevelt to stop the forces of evil and then men (and women) trying to control them? I don't think so.

I love this series! This time in history is so interesting because we really do see this mixture of science and the supernatural as is portrayed in the book. People may not have been trying to bring humans back to life but they were trying to create machines to communicate with the dead and all sorts of other things to "thin the veil". And it's because humanity had all of these new technologies at their fingertips like electricity that we are able to get this weird meshing of sci-fi and supernatural during this time frame. It was just the perfect time and the perfect place and Hopstaken and Prusi capture that feeling perfectly in this series!

I loved that Dr. Victor Mueller is a nod to Victor Frankenstein, I don't believe you can write a series like this without giving Shelley her due and I enjoyed Mueller's character immensely because he isn't focused on very often in the book. We get just enough input from him to know he's not playing with a full deck of cards and then he just becomes the bad guy that has to be taken down. And the manner in which this Victor is able to bring people back from the dead is so interesting!! It's really a no-brainer when you think about it (I'm not spoiling it) and it makes perfect sense that this would be a way to bring people back but up until this book I'd never thought of it!

I wrote this review without going into the background of the first two books, while I don't believe it's entirely necessary to read the first two books, I would recommend it as there are conflicts within the relationships with the characters that wouldn't make sense without that background, especially Florence and Ellen's relationship troubles.

Overall, this was a solid entry into one of my favorite series and I look forward to the fourth book and I'm hoping Lorna doesn't go sideways. I liked her character!! —Kelly Wendt

4.0 out of 5 stars Finding humor in horror

Bram Stoker and Oscar Wilde are at it again. Or in this book, more Stoker than Wilde. Oscar Wilde is busy planning his wedding, a wedding that promises to be the most significant London social event of the year (or decade? century? ever?). While Wilde focuses on dominating the London social calendar (and hopefully tamping down rumors of his own homosexuality), Stoker goes with an expedition to find a scientist rumored to be raising the dead. They find his evil lair (that’s just fun to write) but he is missing and presumed dead.

Meanwhile London society is becoming enamored with a young medium who can actually speak with the dead. At first she is participating in a scheme to fake contact with the dead, complete with children hiding in the room to make noises and pretend to be spirits. Then she meets a woman, her long missing mother, who unlocks her latent abilities and the seances move from fraudulent to frightening.

As the plot progresses (using the literary technique of diary entries by different characters telling the story from their own perspective and in their own voice), the plots come together and our protagonists find themselves facing enemies old and new. As befits a series with vampires and other things that go bump in the night, the inconvenient fact that some of those enemies were dead at the beginning of the novel does not reduce their menace.

The husband and wife writers have put together a series that is fun, whimsical, pays homage to both the Victorian horror genre and to these two authors in particular, and does not take itself too seriously. It is charming, not too scary, and quite clever. I am not sure just how far they intend to take their series, but I am along for the ride. —Scintilla, Amazon Review