This book fits in the "spirit world" kind of episodes from the X-files. I like it when i read it, and it has some additional aspects about the relationships between Mulder and Scully that i never seen in the series, but are according to the characters. If you are a X-Fan, you will like to read this book. But you will not find any alien!

The inherent problem with this book is that it's stretched too thin and tries to cover to many personalities. Charles Dana and Greeley are ancillary players in the civil war drama; there's enough material on Grant and journalists to warrant a study of him alone. In addition, Charles Dana deliberately muddied the historical waters by having others ghostwrite his memoirs and constantly changing this stories or giving conflicting testimony about various events.

Maihofer writes well and certainly displays a prejudice in General Grant's favor. There are few factual errors and the pace is lively. However, the book would have been improved had he restricted the narrative to U.S. Grant and eliminated Dana and Greeley. Ultimately this makes for a somewhat disjointed book and one is sorely temped to skip over the chapters with the two minor supporting players.

This is a compilation of short gothic (in this case, read: dull & simplistic) ghost stories. Practically all of them set up a weak plot that is never followed through. Invariably, all of them are presented with a weak and sometimes absurd premise, to then be cut short 5 pages later with no closure whatsoever. Don't expect thrills, or much less chills from this book. There is one sweet story, Dust Motes, but for 10 pages, keep your money in your pocket.

More people should know about literary ghost stories, which I like to describe as "wonder tales from the shadow side." They tend not to be tales of graphic horror. True, if the term "gothic" suggests terror and violence to the reader, that reader might be disappointed. But stories like the ones in GOTHIC GHOSTS take the reader away, and have enduring power.

Expatriate American teacher Evan Kendal and British doctor Addie Burwin find themselves involved and on the run from Addie's husband Paul, who has apparently been touched by some kind of evil that causes both physical and mental decay, as well as giving him the power to cause catastrophes. Back in Evan's hometown, something similar seems to have happened to Evan's uncle. All of this is presently effectively, which is what makes the conclusion such a disappointment. All of the various plot threads come together, but it all feels very arbitrary and sketchy. The final explanation for the supernatural goings-on is vague. Also, Mr. Grant does not write teenagers well; the grammar, vocabulary, and references in their conversation makes them all sound like people in their forties.

Charles Grant usually writes excellent gothic type thrillers, but this it not one of them. Two weakly connected stories come together. The first about a struggling American teacher turned writer living in England dealing with a friend who has both gone mad and apparently gained the ability to cause horrible accidents or death with a simple touch, the second about a click of his former students back home (in New England of course) getting ready to pull the usual 'stunts' (aka pranks) on Halloween night. While sporting Grant's keen eye for atmosphere and undstanding of character, the tale just did not come together for me. A disappointment.

This book is a dissappointment to say the least! With very little basis in any fact the book is presented negativly by the authors. Has a good title but is weak from beginning to to end.

This book is completely ridiculous. It has almost no basis in fact. If you want to know what somebody fantasizes about Cary Grant read it. If you want facts, read another biograpy.

"Cary Grant: The Lonely Heart" has been selected for listing in "Religion and Psychoactive Sacraments: An Entheogen Chrestomathy" http://www.csp.org/chrestomathy

Grant's Dissector leaves much to be desired. The dissection instructions are not all that clear nor are the drawings that great. It seems to skip around a lot with the dissection. It also mentions a lot of structures to look for which aren't in the drawings. I would recommend the authors reconsider their layout. I would also consider looking at other dissectors if you are looking to buy one.

Study an atlas before you go into lab. You can figure out how to dissect almost everything without a dissector. If you get stuck, ask a professor, but reference this book only as a last resort. There are MUCH better ways of accessing certain structures than the instructions in this book. There is absolutely no reason to have your own personal copy. The one plus about this edition is that references to other atlases besides Grant's (terrible) are given.

I am a medical student at Texas A&M USHSC COM. This is the standard for anatomy lab. No other dissector will do. I say this simply because almost all medical schools will be following (almost page by page) the general course laid out within this text. I would not suggest buying the combo pack. In stead, this book is best used in conjunction with Rohen's (Color Atlas of Anatomy: A Photographic Study of the Human Body), Netter's (Atlas of Human Anatomy), and Moore (Clinically Oriented Anatomy). *Using the dissector to do a virtual dissection at home with your Rohen every night before lab will greatly increase your yield and decrease your lab time. This is a very important point (as anyone who has been through this part of medical school can tell you). --> You will need a CLEAN copy for home use. You should consider this even if you have to buy a spare <-- There are some errors in the dissector, but they are of no consequence as long as you use it in conjunction with the other texts mentioned above.

Although the selection of short stories in this anthology is excellent, presenting an array of some of the best classic and contemporary pieces of the genre, the number of typographical errors are INEXCUSABLE. This is the anthology I purchased for a short fiction class this past fall, and as a class we were increasingly astounded by each additional typo we confronted. In about half of the stories we read, we encountered at least one, and in some we noticed more than one, which was really distracting. In Conan Doyle's Red Headed League, for instance, Holmes "THOUGH as much" (as opposed to thought), and on the very next page, he "only wished to ask WHO he would get to the Strand" (as opposed to how). The fact that there was a misprint in my favorite story of those that we read - James Joyce's Araby--was the last straw for me. My professor encouraged us to write or e-mail the editors and complain, and one student did, only to receive an e-mail which defended them and declared that the errors don't really alter the content or overall effect of the stories. Ironically, instead of the monetary compensation my fellow student(unsurprisingly)requested, the person she contacted offered to send her a free book on English writing and usage. We all told her she should send an e-mail back to them, telling them to keep the book because the editors obviously needed it more than her.

It really is disgraceful, though. How could the editors possibly think that stupid errors like this don't crucially alter the story's effect on the reader? This is not the case. It is distracting and irritating, and destroys the effect for me. I can't imagine that James Joyce would have agreed with the comment that errors like this don't really damage the story. Every author whose story was massacred by these editors would shudder that their works of art were destroyed by carelessness. Isn't the editor's job to make positively sure these kinds of errors are not there? It's really hard to believe. I've never EVER encountered typographical errors in books I've read for school, and very few in the ones I have found mistakes in. Certainly no more than two! Don't buy this anthology...maybe wait for the next edition-- hopefully they will proofread a little more accurately. If the editors happen to read this-- please, this is one disappointed student who doesn't want monetary compensation--I just want another book, and I want it to be perfect!