A review by emmacb
The Travelling Bag And Other Ghostly Stories by Susan Hill

mysterious slow-paced
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

Honestly bought this book because of its beautiful cover, but sadly just didn't do it for me. I get that many of the gaps left in these stories are for your imagination to fill in the implied holes for maximum creepiness, but for me there were too many spaces left open, to the point where none of the stories particularly creeped me out because I didn't have enough context to be more than just slightly confused! 
It just felt like a lot of build up, but then the big reveal was just 'ITS A GHOST!!' without a huge amount of why the ghost was even there.

I'm a fairly literal reader though, so maybe it's perfectly good and just not for me!