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octavia_cade 's review for:
Haunted Canada: True Ghost Stories
by Pat Hancock
informative
mysterious
fast-paced
Came across this little book of ghosts recently - it's a collection of a few dozen ghost stories for kids. Not fiction, but Canadian ghosts that have appeared, or are believed to have appeared, throughout history. The Canadian equivalent of Catherine Howard running through Hampton Court Palace, for instance. There are stories on haunted ships, haunted theatres, haunted railways, all sorts of things. None of them are very in-depth; this is a book aimed at ten to twelve year olds, perhaps, so the more gruesome historical details are skipped over. The chapters are generally not more than four pages long, but they outline the historical circumstances around the hauntings well enough. I actually found one that takes place in the town a Canadian friend of mine lives in... I'm going to have to ask her if she's heard of it!