HAUNTED HOUSE

by Shirley Hughes ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 29, 1978

This scaled-down old-fashioned melodrama starts out with two boys investigating a haunted house but soon settles down inside where little Mary lives with her Granny, the new caretaker. Having set out to rescue the presumably imprisoned girl glimpsed through a window, the boys stay to donate hand-me-downs when Mary cries over her granny-made clothes, and to help rescue her cat Uriah when the mansion's grouchy owner Captain Grimthorpe moves in with his vicious red-eyed dog. All ends well when Uriah unmasks (or rather de-wigs) the villain, who is not Captain Grimthorpe at all but the captain's lazy deadbeat brother Maurice; Maurice flees, Granny stays on as the house is converted to an old people's home, and Mary moves in with the boys. It's all related with a proper straight face and illustrated engagingly, but readers who start out on a hunt for spooks might be disappointed to find only the shade of a spoof.

Pub Date: May 29, 1978

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Prentice-Hall

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1978

Categories: FICTION