This book was extremely disappointing. Being a fan of R.L. Stine, I was expecting some real thrills, but this turned out to be a typical teenage friendship story with the odd poltergeist activity thrown in. I won't be bothering with anymore of the series. ( )

Possible Spoiler Alert:

So now rather than just having an evil force in the house, we have an evil ghost who presumably got that way due to the evil force. I did think the transition from the evil being Cally centered rather than evil force centered, doesn't entirely go. What's up with that strange handyman who never actually kills the rats? It was obvious that the bag was important, and I did like the way his "condition" tied in with everything. ( )