Haunting Stories

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Books that have stayed with you long after you read them.

One that did it for me:-

Come Home Charlie and Face Them by RF Delderfield

To me, that whole business of concealing a body and gettting on with the rest of your life (but never knowing it would be discovered at any time) is just horrifying and fascinating at the same time.

There's a children's series called Once and Then by Moris Gleitzman which tells the story of a young jewish boy during the holocaust. Very very haunting and extremely good.
The Return by Victoria Hislop has also stayed with me - the events of the Spanish civil war were and remain shocking.
Primo Levi's If this is a Man has to top the list though. Truly impossible to forget and a read that will stay with me for the rest of my life.
I suppose overall books based upon true stories have the most effect on me and stay with me.

If this is a Man is worth a read!

Talking of the Spanish Civil War I really enjoyed Winter in Madrid by CJ Sansom - well, apart from about the last 50 pages. The first half was absolutely wonderful and has stayed with me.

I agree re If this is a man. Also The Periodic Table.

Just looked up the blurb on Amazon. Will definitely be buying If This is a Man

Come Home Charlie and Face Them was also a mini series.
(must have been quite good for them to make a mini series out of it)

The subject matter, on first appearances, seemes quite boring. But, there is something a bit sinister (in a buried body/skeleton in the closet which people might just discover one day kind of way).
These are often the best type of stories. They meander along in a mundane fashion, but carry sinister, haunting undertones - which is all the more shocking.
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Stories of contrasts

With regard to If This Is a Man, Primo Levi, the author, committed suicide in 1987. A close friend of his, another holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel said that Primo had in fact died forty years ago, in Auschwitz. Truly haunting.

I love reading Holocaust Stories hope that isn't wrong
Anybody read Sophies Choice?

Both Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel's books are haunting - as is much I've read about the Holocaust. I read a book called Lost Voices of The Holocaust a few years ago - verbatim accounts from many European Jews. Heart-wrenching, terrifying and definitely haunting.