When I was a kid, there was a meeting place where we could play and hang out under supervision after school (in Finnish it's called "iltapäiväkerho"). I think I was something between 7 and 10, when we hung a sheet over a table and told ghost stories inside the "tent". There were a few of us so it was hot in there, and I remember faintly that someone told the story The Green Hand but with a red high-heeled shoe, and the story about the dripping blood. I was creeped out but also fascinated. There were also books that supposedly contained urban legends, and they were wildly popular later on when I was about 11 or 12.

All this came back to me when I started reading these stories, so in part it was a very amusing nostalgia trip. Overall though most of the stories were disappointing. It may just be me, because I only enjoyed those that had actual supernatural stuff and quite macabre endings. I mean, I did not expect to find a cannibalistic story in a children's book! The stories where the point was to tell them in a low voice, and then shout the last word to make everyone jump, are probably exciting in a social setting. The rest were just meh. I don't want to spoil anything, but one of them was ridiculous and the last two were technically jokes, not ghost stories.