SuitabookAll the lovely bad ones
Mary Downing Hahn
- Reading
- Try the opening together if your reader is unsure about ghost stories. Pause to check how the suspense feels, and decide whether to continue or read independently.
- Themes
- Pranks and consequences: Travis and Corey stage a haunting, awakening a dangerous spirit. The plot connects their prank with a serious consequence, but that alone does not establish how the story judges their behaviour.
- A secret from the past: The siblings investigate Fox Hill’s secret and the horrors said to have affected its inhabitants years earlier. The past is presented as part of a mystery to uncover; its details and the story’s treatment of what happened remain unclear.
- Worth knowing
- The story includes a dangerous, spiteful spirit and references past horrors at Fox Hill. The details and intensity of these frightening elements are not clear.