Chris Priestley

I liked the way these stories were framed by the narrator’s visits to his uncle, and some of them were quite spooky. The dialogue to transition from one to another was a little clunky, and I was disappointed by the uncle’s explanation at the end. The gloomy, mysterious atmosphere around him and his house had built up nicely, but Uncle Montague’s confession felt anticlimactic. The stories aren’t super gory, but there are still nasty shocks and a lot of death. The book had an old-fashioned feel to it, and my husband, who reads a lot of Victorian ghost stories, enjoyed it.… (more)