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The Ghosts of Bourbon Street, IM
by
Seanan McGuire
It is part of the InCryptid #3.1, InCryptid #3.2 series and is a urban fantasy in eBook edition that was published by the author and has 62 pages.
Other books in this series include [books_series]
Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Rosemary and Rue, A Local Habitation, An Artificial Night, Late Eclipses, One Salt Sea, Discount Armageddon, Home Improvement: Undead Edition, “Never Shines the Sun”, Chimes at Midnight, "In Sea-Salt Tears", Indexing, The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination, Half-Off Ragnarok, Midway Relics and Dying Breeds, Games Creatures Play, The Winter Long, Sparrow Hill Road, The InCryptid Prequels, Pocket Apocalypse, Black as Blood, Blocked, White as a Raven's Wing, "Good Girls Go to Heaven", A Red Rose Chain, "Full of Briars", Reflections, Once Broken Faith, "Dreams and Slumbers", Shadowed Souls, Chaos Choreography, Magic For Nothing, Indigo, Every Heart a Doorway, Down Among the Sticks and Bones, The Brightest Fell, "Of Things Unknown", Beneath the Sugar Sky, Night and Silence, "Suffer a Sea-change", The Girl in the Green Silk Gown, "The Recitation of the Most Holy and Harrowing Pilgrimage of Mindy and Also Mork", Tricks for Free, That Ain't Witchcraft, "The Measure of a Monster", The Unkindest Tide, "Hope is Swift", Come Tumbling Down, Imaginary Numbers, "Follow the Lady", In an Absent Dream, "The Fixed Stars", "Forbid the Sea", "No Sooner Met", Across the Green Grass Fields, A Killing Frost, "Shine in Pearl", When Sorrows Come, "And with Reveling", "Singing the Comic-Con Blues”, "Candles and Starlight", "Such Dangerous Seas", Sleep No More
Series: Incryptid
“The Ghosts of Bourbon Street”, 3.1
“IM”, 3.2
It’s two free short stories (PDF, MOBI, and ePUB) that occur between Half-Off Ragnarok, 3, and Pocket Apocalypse, 4, in Seanan McGuire’s Incryptid urban fantasy series; see the chronological listing of the InCryptid books on my website for the complete list).
The Short Stories
“The Ghosts of Bourbon Street”
Verity is taking Dominic the long way home to get him adjusted to the strangeness of her family. In New Orleans, she’ll be introducing him to the raw Aunt Rose from Sparrow Hill Road, Ghost Stories #1 (this short takes place after Sparrow Hill Road). And it’s due to Rose that a ghost asks for help with the vandalism being suffered by the ghost krewes. Interesting bit of selfish and N’awlins culture.
“‘He means he defected,’ I said. ‘I didn’t defect. I was born defective.'”
I had hoped for more on the Aeslin mice in this, well, besides how much Verity enjoyed the wording on that holy ritual for “Look It’s Another Goddamn Cattle Ranch”.
“IM”
A sad tale as Artie is freaking out over Sarah’s injuries and not being able to see her, speak to her. Great-Aunt Angela holds all the cards and is keeping Sarah close. And warning Artie that it may never get any better than this. It’s a shortie. A very short, shortie.
