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With many interesting both general and more specific facts and details about ghosts (including explanations as to what the appearance of departed spirits is traditionally meant to signify) and text and reading level wise geared towards independent child readers from about grade two to four (and thus in my opinion from about the age of seven to around ten), Arthur Donkin’s Spooky Spinechillers presents seven reputed to be true stories of individuals being haunted, of ghosts appearing (both as menacing, dangerous entities and also how ghosts often appear to give warnings, to offer protection from potential harm, but there is also one tale in Spooky Spinechillers which involves not so much a haunting but rather a case of a potential time travel experience, of someone actually seeing Marie Antoinette during a Paris ramble near Versailles).

Appreciatively global in scope and with the seven main stories also augmented on the side panels by supplemental information, by extra pieces of ghost and hauntings nuggets of information and knowledge (such as for example the fact that the first reputed haunted house was supposedly a villa in Ancient Greece more than 2000 years ago) Spooky Spinechillers most definitely is interesting and sufficiently educational but also at least with regard to Andrew Donkin’s writing style not really all that creepy and uncanny feeling, maybe something that makes sense for the intended age group, but personally speaking, both my adult self and my inner child kind of wants a bit more textual, a bit more descriptive words of uncanniness and creepiness. Because while the contents and the themes of Spooky Spinechillers are certainly sufficiently spooky and strange, I just do not find the manner in which Andrew Donkin’s printed words are rendered as being in any manner spinechilling, which does in my opinion tend to give Spooky Spinechillers a bit of a mundane and even potentially a trifle tedious feeling with regard to style and narration. And yes, this does definitely make me only consider a maximum of three stars for Spooky Spinechillers, since aside from Andrew Donkin’s writing style feeling more than a trifle mundane and certainly not creepy and strange enough to be scary, to be frightening, the absence of a bibliography is also annoying and thus does definitely decrease the non fiction and the educational value of Spooky Spinechillers.