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The Ghost Hunter's House of Horror
192 pages, Paperback
First published January 19, 2001
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Ivan Jones
40 books1 followerIvan Jones is a British writer of fiction. His work includes novels, picture books, plays, poetry anthologies, television series and many adaptations for BBC Radio.
He was born in Shropshire and educated at Adam's Grammar School in Newport and has a first degree from Birmingham University and a master's degree from the University of Nottingham.
Ivan Jones is married to fellow author, Mal Lewis Jones . His eldest daughter was Lara Jones , the illustrator and writer of the multimillion selling Poppy Cat books. Lara died in March 2010 from malignant melanoma. (Poppy Cat is currently a television series in the UK and America). Ivan and his wife have 2 other successful children, son Levin (a professional violinist and teacher), and daughter, Jessie, (an artist, poet and singer-songwriter).
Ivan's latest work is a novelistic memoir of a 1950’s childhood, set in post-war Britain called ‘Now The War Is Over’.
He was born in Shropshire and educated at Adam's Grammar School in Newport and has a first degree from Birmingham University and a master's degree from the University of Nottingham.
Ivan Jones is married to fellow author, Mal Lewis Jones . His eldest daughter was Lara Jones , the illustrator and writer of the multimillion selling Poppy Cat books. Lara died in March 2010 from malignant melanoma. (Poppy Cat is currently a television series in the UK and America). Ivan and his wife have 2 other successful children, son Levin (a professional violinist and teacher), and daughter, Jessie, (an artist, poet and singer-songwriter).
Ivan's latest work is a novelistic memoir of a 1950’s childhood, set in post-war Britain called ‘Now The War Is Over’.
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February 9, 2025
I was expecting more from the last in the series, and the storyline was actually very well thought out at the beginning. However, it seemed the "house of horror" elements seemed to just be simply that, just at the beginning. Why were the brushes luring Roddy and Tessa to the house in the first place? Was it because Mrs. Croker's Spektrika was attracting them? If so, why didn't it attract William, or Flora even?
At least we found out Croker's motive for being a ghost hunter anyway, more about her background and history. I was half expecting Wally to be part of the anti-Ghost-Hunting scheme eventually, but his story just seemed to end abruptly.
Then there was the bit with the time machine; the ghosts were all collected for it to work. Then suddenly all of them get sucked back into the past... and that's it.
Although the addition of Flora and other ghosts were a nice continuation of the plot, it fell flat on me as it had the potential to be a much longer book, or even a sequel. Sadly, this story came to a cliffhanger end, with no continuation whatsoever, as for 24 years. It seems as if Ivan Jones was planning another book which never materialised, and I cannot find much information about this online. Perhaps they continued it in Series 3 of the TV show (which actually ended up going a slightly different way than the end of this book).
Therefore it was a disappointment as everything was left unfinished. We never heard from some characters again (Wally and his family, Roddy and Tessa's parents, De Sniff and Croker), it seemed quite sad to end it off as this.
At least we found out Croker's motive for being a ghost hunter anyway, more about her background and history. I was half expecting Wally to be part of the anti-Ghost-Hunting scheme eventually, but his story just seemed to end abruptly.
Then there was the bit with the time machine; the ghosts were all collected for it to work. Then suddenly all of them get sucked back into the past... and that's it.
Although the addition of Flora and other ghosts were a nice continuation of the plot, it fell flat on me as it had the potential to be a much longer book, or even a sequel. Sadly, this story came to a cliffhanger end, with no continuation whatsoever, as for 24 years. It seems as if Ivan Jones was planning another book which never materialised, and I cannot find much information about this online. Perhaps they continued it in Series 3 of the TV show (which actually ended up going a slightly different way than the end of this book).
Therefore it was a disappointment as everything was left unfinished. We never heard from some characters again (Wally and his family, Roddy and Tessa's parents, De Sniff and Croker), it seemed quite sad to end it off as this.
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