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

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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. While comparable to Michelle Paver’s Dark Matter, this is I think very much the better book… the ecology of its horror is much more complete: while lacking none of the horror of the other book, it is all more satisfying. And perhaps—perhaps there’s something about me that makes me a sort of physical medium for that energy: like a battery, or a lightning rod? Photograph: Fox Photos/ Getty Images A 1930s Himalayan expedition, the subject of Michelle Paver’s chilling ghost story.

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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. Horror stories that take place in isolated places are great and I was quite looking forward to being swept off my feet. But I have hiked in mountains in all over the world; and I’ve always loved the classic accounts of climbing, such as THE WHITE SPIDER and TOUCHING THE VOID. Michelle Paver explains at the end of the book that in reality, the actual peak of the mountain remained untouched until 1980, so as not to upset ‘whatever’ lived up there.At last they reach the remote, uninhabited bay where they will camp for the next year, Gruhuken, but the Arctic summer is brief. After gaining a first in biochemistry at Oxford she became a lawyer and was until recently a partner of a large City law firm, specialising in patent litigation.

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

This is the third book I have read by Michelle Paver and like the previous two; Without Charity and Dark Matter is Thin Air an OK book, but like the previous book does this also lack something to make the book great. I read of the great Himalayan expeditions of the ‘20s and 30s: the fever for the summit, the loneliness of high places; the delusions and the dread. Not only does one have to worry about altitude sickness and frostbite and falling off the mountain, but malevolent spirits as well now? Inevitably, there are similarities between the two, but Thin Air is so full of atmosphere, so absorbing, that it develops its own character very quickly. Add a malevolent presence on the mountain that, whether real or not, most definitely wishes you harm and you have Michelle Paver's Thin Air.Paver is particularly skilled at painting a locale that is highly atmospheric, dislocating, and eerie. The story is told from the viewpoint of Stephen, who is a doctor and the younger brother of the group leader Kits.