Today I will be doing another book review. It will be on (as per seen as the title): 10 Best Ghost Stories Ever by the author, Michael Cox. He has many books in the Horrible History TV show style, of making history incredibly funny and entertaining, while keeping the audience captivating by not listing fact after fact after fact. I wouldn't classify the stories in this book as "scary", more so weird and creepy. Basically, it wouldn't give you nightmares, but it also won't be like walking in a daisy field with your unicorn called Jeremy who is secretly working for a secret spy agency with your uncle Stuart who isn't really your uncle, but pretends to be for the sake of a false identity....
Moving on...
There are 10 stories in the book (obviously) and each one is followed by a list of 10 things. An example might be: "10 things to protect yourself from a ghost" or "10 types of ghosts". So it isn't all just story after story. In the introduction to the book, Michael mentions that he has put a modern twist on the stories. An example would be turning the word 'thy' into 'your'. Nothing too distinctive. Of course there wouldn't be the victim ringing the police on the latest iPhone 6 and having them arrive in 3 minutes since most of the stories are set in the 1800 and 1900's.
I give the overall book a 7/10, due to the fact that some of the fact pages did send me to sleep a bit and it took a few months for me to muster the strength to continue reading it, since the introduction to the book is quiet slow.
Thanks for reading!! ~ Cooper
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