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!

[reese · Rating 4 out of 5]

fun little book

[Sydney · Rating 1 out of 5]

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