Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #326600 in Books
• Published on: 2008-09
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 95 pages

Customer Reviews

thollings
I loved this book. So believable. What a fascinating read, even though quite frightening in parts. Apart from ghostly happenings to the Slater family which followed them from a house in Sheepscar, which fell down for no apparent reason to a house just as haunted in Potternewton, it offered a chronicle of the family. Mrs Slater even had a ghost following her to three elderly persons homes in her old age. I do not understand the remarks by B. Osborne about Oakwood Hall, which was not a statley home but just a mansion, which was an important part of the story. I think they either did not read it, or they read a different book to me. I definitely recommend it. Photo's too.

Who's there?
This book is mainly set in the Sheepscar and Potternewton area of Leeds. It focuses on the eerie experiences of the Slater family which includes a house falling down for no apparent reason.

The story is creepy but believable as it is written in a non sensationalist way. You do find yourself interested in the non spooky aspects too. Although it is set in Leeds, I do think that readers from other areas will also find it interesting.

I loved it and would recommend it.

Bit misleading
Although absorbing, mainly because I'm familiar with the area, I found this book a bit misleading. The image on the front was of a small local stately home, Oakwood Hall, so you're lead to believe by this and the write-up on the reverse that the book is going to be about the haunting of this building.

On the contrary it's mainly about the haunting of a terraced house in Harehills, Leeds, with a brief passing reference to Oakwood Hall in a later chapter - nothing much happened there except the author's elderly mother thought she saw a woman's ghost which then 'followed' her to another old peoples home.

So I was disappointed having mainly bought the book because I remember attending garden parties at the Hall as a child and was curious to read about it being very haunted when in fact I doubt if it is haunted at all.

Kind of felt cheated, really.