Product Description

Presents four scary stories involving a spooky lighthouse, a phantom mask, a haunted house, and a mysterious photograph.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7454931 in Books
• Published on: 1989-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 90 pages

From School Library Journal
Horror story fans beware--of these ghostly but ghastly collections of short stories. A mummy who haunts the museum hallways, a meat-eating plant that consumes a pet cat, a mirror that houses all the evils in the world, ghosts that frequent a playground, and a typewriter that types tragedies that come true are just a spooky sampling of the indistinctive, somewhat scary tales in this series. Each volume contains a combination of short stories and novellas. The stories in The Gruesome Guests and Murder Comes to Life are mediocre; unevenly written; and contain predictable, contrived plots. The Haunted Playground and Terror in the Mirror are a little better, as they include stories that are somewhat mysterious and a tad frightening. Readers of the horror genre, however, will be more squeamishly scared by uncanny, eerie, and ghostly books such as Hahn's The Doll in the Garden (Clarion, 1989) , Richard Peck's books about Blossom Culp (Delacorte), and Betty Ren Wright's Christina's Ghost (1985) and The Pike River Phantom (1988, both Holiday). This series certainly won't give readers nightmares, make them shiver in their shoes, or quench their thirsts for the gruesome. --April L. Judge, Thousand Oaks Library,
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