Review — Ghost Stories from the Pacific Northwest

by Chris Hyatt
Faces Magazine — 09/01/2007

The Pacific Northwest is certainly riddled with ghosts and spooks—from the most obedient child ghosts to the most mischievous poltergeists. My particular favorite, though, would be Oscar the Obedient Ghost, the playful little ghost who would simply cease his little tricks if you asked him to. I thought the way the book was organized was very clever. Categorizing the ghosts into the different places that they haunted was a very interesting way to go about it. I enjoyed the section about ghosts that haunted shops; they seemed to be a helpful bunch and fairly pleasant to have around. While reading, though I felt that there weren’t enough serious stories. Most were funny, but there weren’t enough that gave you the shivers and the goose bumps that you would normally associate with ghosts. There was no suspense to really keep the reader going and I think that most 13-year-olds would be looking for that. It seemed to be a book that you would read every now and agai n, as opposed to reading it all in one go, as you would a novel. Having said that, I found that the language was simple and effective and the stories entertaining—and maybe it’s a good lesson to learn that all ghosts aren’t of the Ghostbusters variety and are as varied and different in character in their “world” as we are in ours.

Title Details: Ghost Stories from the Pacific Northwest
Author: Margaret Read MacDonald

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