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[rallycairn]

Well, does anyone want to do a spooky book like we did last year for October? We did Tears for a Tall Horse by Ann Wigley.

[haffyfan]

I like that idea. There's a couple of Allen books with a spooky theme, the Carolyn Henderson book, Grey Ghost and Red horse haunting (could be Ann Wigley too). Carolyn Henderson has a new one out which is possibly a follow up if i recall correctly too.

[Claire]

Crikey it doesnt seem like a year ago we read that!!! Yes thats a very good idea. Or to take it further we could do a horsy author who specialised in ghost stories perhaps.

This list is cut n pasted from my website subject page on 'ghost stories' :-
Angela Dorsey - Freedom trilogy
Stacey Gregg - Pony Club Secrets series (partial)
Carolyn Henderson - The Grey Ghost
Eleanor Jones - Fears and Phantoms, Echo of Hooves, Dreams and Demons, Spirit of the Sea
Pamela Kavanagh - Pony Farm Mystery, Dreamcatcher
Betty Levin - A Binding Spell
Anne Marie MacDonald - The Ghost Horse of Meadow Green
Shirley Rousseau Murphy - White Ghost Summer
K. M. Peyton - Stealaway
Isolde Pullum - The Green Horse trilogy
Janni Lee Simner - Phantom Rider series
Nancy Springer - Sky Rider
Joyce Stranger - Midnight Magic
Phyllis A. Whitney - The Mystery of the Crimson Ghost
Anne Wigley - The Red Horse Haunting, Tears For a Tall Horse

Eleanor Jones and Pamela Kavanagh wrote quite a few spooky ones. Can anyone think of other authors who wrote a lot of ghostly type pony stories?

I quite like Angela Dorsey's Freedom as its not a 'cuddly' ghost horse if you know what I mean, I think that one would create some good discussion.

[rallycairn]

I am up for any of the ghostly ones. Just to note btw, I read Ghost Horse of Meadow Green last year and, while a complex story dealing with a very troubled marriage/family and also elderly dementia, it does not really have any ghostly elements. Just an unaccounted for horse in a field the imaginative protagonist investigates at the beginning, and on from there into training said horse, and so on.

[susanb]

Mystery of the Crimson Ghost is a best beloved from childhood, so I'd welcome a chance to revisit it. I've read White Ghost Summer only once, but thought it excellent....almost lyric.

Pony Farm Mystery and The Binding Spell have been lurking in my tbr pile for YEARS, so I'd be up for those as well.


Lynn Hall did a few ghost type pony books, but they were really for younger readers. Can I Get There by Candlelight might count, though you could also say it was a time slip. There is also The Secret of Shadow Ranch by Carolyn Keene....the Nancy Drew mystery.

[Deleted]

Not read any of that lot.