World's Strangest True Ghost Stories

by John Macklin, Elise Chanowitz (Illustrator)

A collection of twenty-three incidents involving hauntings, jinxes, evil spirits, and other ghostly manifestations

Genres: Horror

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1990

Reviews

[Greg Strandberg · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a fun read. I honestly do not remember any of these stories from when I read this book, oh..about 25 years ago or so. I had it in third or fourth grade and it was a great book to be seen with, very cool, everyone wanted to look at it.

It's a shame they don't have an image here on Goodreads, but these stories are crafted very well. For instance, the one I just read had a couple watching Breaking Away as the NBC Weekend Movie in January 1981. You get lots of small details like that, and they really give these 1 to 2 pages stories a fun punch.

I'd have to say I like the other volume of scarier stories better. Many of these are just that - weird or strange or 'oh, imagine that,' not really 'did something just move behind the curtains?'

[Glitch · Rating 4 out of 5]

Found this little gem at my local thrift store for 25 cents and I'm glad I did!

This is a very nice little collection of many short "true" ghost stories.

It reminds me of watching mysteries at the museum as a kid, lol

I think my favorite story was probably the last!

[Jamie Reads · Rating 4 out of 5]

Overall, for a children's book I think that this is a very good collection of stories to give you the hobbies jeebies. I liked how they were broken up into sections so you can pick and choose what kind of haunting you want to read about.
Some of the stories really grabbed my attention, but not all of them. Something good to read for October.

[reese · Rating 4 out of 5]

fun little book

[Sydney Baker · Rating 1 out of 5]

I could not finish this book because it gave me horrible nightmares.