Ghost Stories (Hardy Boys)
by Franklin W. Dixon
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The Hardy brothers are confronted with the supernatural in these six ghost stories which include "The Walking Scarecrow" and "The Haunted Castle."Tags
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I thought that this was a book that wasn't exactly what I was expercting. I thought that this book was going to try to be scary, but instead it had a mystery to it. The book is about two brothers that have different adventures and encounter ghosts and other strange things along the way. There are five different stories told in this book, and at the end of all of them it never really told what happend that made the strange work. At certain times in the book I thought that the brothers were just getting delusional and seeing things, but at other times I felt like I was there because of how well the author told the stories.
Very Interesting. It was nice to see the Hardy Boys take on a slightly different genre of fiction.
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Franklin W. Dixon Franklin W. Dixon is actually a pseudonym for any number of ghostwriters who have had the distinction of writing stories for the Hardy Boys series. The series was originally created by Edward Stratmeyer in 1926, the same mastermind of the Nancy Drew detective series, Tom Swift, the Rover Boys and other characters. While show more Stratmeyer created the outlines for the original series, it was Canadian writer Leslie McFarlane who breathed life to the stories and created the persona Franklin W. Dixon. McFarlane wrote for the series for over twenty years and is credited with success of the early collection of stories. As the series became more popular, it was pared down, the format changed and new ghostwriters added their own flavor to the stories. Part of the draw of the Hardy Boys is that as the authors changed, so to did the times and the story lines. While there is no one true author of the series, each ghostwriter can be given credit for enhancing the life of this series and never unveiling that there really is no Franklin W. Dixon. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Frank Hardy; Joe Hardy
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