Puppet's Payback and Other Chilling Tales

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 ordinary—a pigeon, a white dress, a stranger on the bus, a puppet—into a sinister link to to the 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 a concluding note, the author talks about how she came to write ghost stories.

Autorul unor povesti de fantome extrem de populare, Mary Downing Hahn a creat un grup de povesti pentru fanii cartilor ei „infricosatoare, dar nu prea infricosatoare”. Chiar si povestile fara fantome reale sunt infricosatoare. Fiecare poveste transforma ceva obisnuit - un porumbel, o rochie alba, un strain in autobuz, o marioneta - intr-o legatura sinistra cu supranaturalul. Pentru personajele umane, secretele din trecut sau comportamentul neglijent din prezent pot duce la probleme serioase.