The author of wildly popular ghost stories, Mary Downing Hahn has created a group of tales for fans of her scary but not too scary books. Even the stories without actual ghosts are spooky.Each tale turns something ordinarya pigeon, a white dress, a stranger on the bus, a puppetinto a sinister link tothe supernatural.For the human characters, secrets from the past or careless behavior in the present can lead to serious trouble. All the stories have a young person as the central character, so all will resonate with young readers who enjoy the eerie, the creepy, and the otherworldly. In aconcluding note, the author talks about how she came to write ghost stories.