This book is composed of 8 different Ghost stories: Oldcastle Hill; Room 7; The doctor’s last visit; Mrs Wood comes home; The ghost in the garden; Roger Wingate’s new car; A friend of our family and A birthday card for Mrs Rogers. Each one tells a story where ghosts appear, and every single story is completely different to the others. The story that scared me the most was Mrs Wood comes home. The book is about a man that every holiday went to his friends house to stay there with them. One Easter holiday, something frightening happened that made him want to go back home. They went to a pub to talk a little bit about what had happened in the village since he left, and they told him that Mrs Wood had moved to Australia with her soon. He didn't know who that woman was, so they explained him that she used to live in the house across the street and that she was a really naughty old woman. His friend’s wife, Annie, used to help her and one day, the woman treated Annie really badly, and she and her husband, Jack, decided that she wouldn't go to help her again. After having dinner, he went to bed and started looking through the window and he took some photos of the house which was across the street. Suddenly, he saw someone in the window of that house. An old woman was staring at him. He felt afraid because it couldn’t be possible for Mrs Wood to be there, so he thought that another person had bought the house. Even so, he didn’t sleep well that night, and he didn’t enjoy his holidays. When he returned home, the photos he had taken during his stay in Porchester arrived, and he was afraid of what he was going to see in the photo he took to Mrs Wood’s house. Obviously, the woman was staring at him. Suddenly, the bell rang. It was Jack. He rushed into the bedroom. He took the photograph from his hands and he claimed that the woman there was Mrs Wood. He told Bill that the woman had died in Australia. Her ghost had returned home, and because of that, his wife had died the night before. The fear killed her when she saw Mrs Wood’s spirit had come back home.
Personal Opinion
It’s a great option if you like scary stories and if you are not afraid of reading them at night. Being realistic, it’s a very good book, but personally, though, I was very very afraid when I was reading the stories because I started reading them at night, and in the future, I don’t think I would choose this types of books. But even so, it’s is a very good book as I said before and I think the feeling I felt is the one that this type of books should make you feel.
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Daniela Berciuc
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