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The Folcroft Ghosts
by Darcy Coates
I have to say, I have gained a lot of respect for Darcy Coates as I read through her rapidly growing library of horror books. You'd think that when someone is cranking out similar books at an impressive rate, they would essentially start to feel like clones where the names get replaced but little else changes. However, this isn't the case.
Somehow Coates manages to find interesting ways to change up the formula. Sometimes the ghosts are malicious. Sometimes they are benevolent. Sometimes they're a mix of the two. While the main characters tend share many characteristics, they are also distinct enough to feel like unique personalities.
This time Coates takes us along as two young children are being deposited by a fussy lady at their grandparents' place in the country. Their mother has been seriously, possibly fatally, injured in a traffic collision and they have to stay with people they've never even met until she recovers. If she ever does. They are still trying to adapt to their drastically different living situation when things go spooky. Considering the title of the book it's not much of a spoiler to say the place is haunted as heck, but again to Coates' credit the details surrounding the haunting are refreshingly innovative.
The Folcroft Ghosts is a nice and tight book, coming in at under 300 pages and again with very little waste. It gets in, tells a spooky story and gets out. It's fun to read, but sadly isn't as scary as the Haunting of Ashburn House, Ghost Camera or the Haunting of Blackwood House.
Somehow Coates manages to find interesting ways to change up the formula. Sometimes the ghosts are malicious. Sometimes they are benevolent. Sometimes they're a mix of the two. While the main characters tend share many characteristics, they are also distinct enough to feel like unique personalities.
This time Coates takes us along as two young children are being deposited by a fussy lady at their grandparents' place in the country. Their mother has been seriously, possibly fatally, injured in a traffic collision and they have to stay with people they've never even met until she recovers. If she ever does. They are still trying to adapt to their drastically different living situation when things go spooky. Considering the title of the book it's not much of a spoiler to say the place is haunted as heck, but again to Coates' credit the details surrounding the haunting are refreshingly innovative.
The Folcroft Ghosts is a nice and tight book, coming in at under 300 pages and again with very little waste. It gets in, tells a spooky story and gets out. It's fun to read, but sadly isn't as scary as the Haunting of Ashburn House, Ghost Camera or the Haunting of Blackwood House.