The ghost hunter's guide

Title:

Monster tracker

Monster tracker.

Author:

Bouvier, Charles.

ISBN:

9781597713160

Physical Description:

32 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.

Series:

Monster tracker

Monster tracker.

Contents:

Ghosts everywhere! -- Ghosts, spirits, and revenants -- Lemures of ancient Rome -- The White Lady -- Ghost hitchhikers -- Yurei of Japan -- Rakshasa of India -- Noisy spirits -- Ghost ship : the Flying Dutchman -- Phantom armies -- China's Hungry Ghost Festival -- All Hallows' Eve -- Ghosts on screen.

Subject:

Ghosts -- Juvenile literature.

Ghosts.

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Summary

Describes different types of ghosts from around the world, their characteristics, and how to tell if they are dangerous or not.

Reviews (1)

School Library Journal Review

Gr 4-6-These entertaining and creepy instructional guides identify supernatural creatures across cultures and through the ages. A white font on black backgrounds, grotesque photographs and illustrations, and oozing colors around chapter headings create a suitably chilling atmosphere, enhanced by a dramatic, second-person narration ("Imagine yourself."). However, the series fails to distinguish strongly between fact and fiction in places. For example, tales of ghost armies that reportedly participated in historical battles are presented as factual and while a lurid image in Alien of scientists hovering over an unconscious alien at Roswell contains a disclaimer, readers may come away with a different impression. Though exhaustive in scope, covering well-known hauntings from Amityville to obscure vampires (the loogaroos of the Caribbean), some chapters are hastily gathered, omitting significant information. Frequent images and quotations from movies (Twilight, Halloween) make this series fun light reading, but it's not without its drawbacks. (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.