SuitabookWorld Full of Ghosts
Charis Cotter
- Reading
- Read a few entries at a time and use the skull ratings to choose the order.
- Themes
- Ghost traditions across cultures: The book introduces traditional spectres associated with places including Alaska, Japan, China, Mexico, Africa, England and Scotland, alongside accounts of Halloween and Día de los Muertos. Its main approach is to explain and present different ghost traditions as cultural stories, while the playful tone may make them approachable rather than solemn.
- Death, remembrance and celebration: The Mexico excerpt depicts Día de los Muertos as a lively cemetery gathering with food, flowers, music, photographs and children’s games. In this excerpt, remembrance is portrayed positively through shared celebration, with death treated as part of a communal occasion rather than only as something frightening.
- Worth knowing
- Some material may deserve a preview: ghostly violence is mentioned, one illustration has a bloody and gruesome quality, and the stories are rated from one to three skulls for scariness.