![]() ![]() ![]() Given that some kids do dwell on them, this story has a tone which is ‘safe’ compared with the bizarre exorcist stuff that the cinema churns out and if a kid has an obsession he could do worse than read this story which keeps a due sense of proportion. ![]() Amusing story, perceptive remarks about family relationships and a good reminder that ‘there are more things in heaven and earth…’ I am unhappy with the idea that ghosts are solely the products of internal, mental disturbances, of psychic emanations from a person, usually an adolescent, and it is good to visualise these forces as external in order to be objective but I am not sure whether I want children to dwell on them. The boy of the house gets into trouble for all the mischief and he discovers details about a previous appearance of the same ghost from rubbish turned out from the attic and, after failed exorcisms, the ghost is finally laid to rest. An old house if haunted by a poltergeist. ![]()
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