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foldingthepage_kayleigh's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
fast-paced
5.0
I cannot believe I used to regularly read this book as a kid.
- The language was definitely above my reading level at the time, I must’ve had great reading comprehension because I still remember some of these stories.
- The ghost stories told in this collection are actually really scary! In this re-read I definitely woke up from nightmares convinced a ghost was in my room, and lingering feelings of dread while reading some of these retellings.
I am so happy I decided to re-read this one as part of Book.Club.Bitches Summer Reading Bingo for the prompt “re-read a childhood favourite.” Growing up, the scariest story to me was Haunted Apartment to Let, and this time around, the one that freaked me out the most was “Poltie” Did It. I know my favourite chapter when I was younger was the one on Haunted Houses and I would say that sentiment remains the same, but I would add Eerily Entertaining and Spirit Snippets up there as my new sections that gave me the biggest creeps.
This collection stands the test of time, a great combination of Alberta slice of life, but with frightening elements.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Sexual harassment, Death of parent, Colonisation, Child death, Grief, and Suicide
Minor: Rape, Animal death, Car accident, and Murder
peyton_'s review
3.0
A good read, but I did not enjoy it as much as the first. The first book had a better layout, whereas this book the stories just ran together. I preferred when the stories were separated by location/city instead of what was haunted. Also, the writing was really repetitive. Smith reused phrases like "they were alone-or were they" "the room was empty-or was it" "nobody was there-nobody living" etc. etc. I just found it annoying and the book actually gave me a bit of a headache when I read it. I am done with this collection and will not move on to "Even More Ghost Stories of Alberta". This one just did not work for me.
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