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<blockquote data-quote="Mad_Jack" data-source="post: 8815701" data-attributes="member: 6750306">Currently most of the way through Seanan Mcguire's Sparrow Hill Road... Great take on ghost stories/urban legends.Everyone knows the old stories about the ghostly hitchhikers still trying to find a ride home, the phantom racers haunting the highways, the serial killers stalking the interstates...Sparrow Hill Road follows what happens to Rose, &quot;The Girl in the Green Dress&quot;, after she's run off the road and killed in 1952... Thinking that her boyfriend has ditched her when he doesn't show up to pick her up for the Prom, she borrows her brother's car and heads to the Prom on her own. But she never makes it. Now she's a ghost - a hitcher, wandering the highways of the US in search of a ride, a borrowed coat and a warm meal at a diner, the original inspiration for all the other urban legends and local tales of ghostly teenage passengers.&nbsp;She's spent the years since her death traveling America, drawn to impending accidents, sometimes able to save a few people, mostly arriving just in time to guide the ghosts of the victims onward toward their afterlife......And still playing a game of cat-and-mouse with the immortal killer who ran her off the road that night in 1952 and wants to finish the job.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mad_Jack, post: 8815701, member: 6750306"] Currently most of the way through Seanan Mcguire's [I][B]Sparrow Hill Road[/B][/I]... Great take on ghost stories/urban legends. Everyone knows the old stories about the ghostly hitchhikers still trying to find a ride home, the phantom racers haunting the highways, the serial killers stalking the interstates... [I]Sparrow Hill Road[/I] follows what happens to Rose, "The Girl in the Green Dress", after she's run off the road and killed in 1952... Thinking that her boyfriend has ditched her when he doesn't show up to pick her up for the Prom, she borrows her brother's car and heads to the Prom on her own. But she never makes it. Now she's a ghost - a hitcher, wandering the highways of the US in search of a ride, a borrowed coat and a warm meal at a diner, the original inspiration for all the other urban legends and local tales of ghostly teenage passengers. She's spent the years since her death traveling America, drawn to impending accidents, sometimes able to save a few people, mostly arriving just in time to guide the ghosts of the victims onward toward their afterlife... ...And still playing a game of cat-and-mouse with the immortal killer who ran her off the road that night in 1952 and wants to finish the job. [/QUOTE]

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