Review: Letter "Send[s] Shivers Up The Spine...Spooky Atmosphere"

Book review: The Letter, the Witch, and the Ring

An amazing adventure...with Gothic, mysterious additions which send shivers up the spine and add to the spooky atmosphere: recall when Rose Rita breaks into Gert Bigger's store at night, entering through the cellar door --

'Halfway up the steps Rose Rita noticed something that made her stop: a picture hanging with its face turned to the walls. Curious, she reached up and turned it over. The picture showed a saint with a halo. He was clutching a cross and staring up toward heaven with wide unearthly eyes. Hurriedly Rose Rita turned the picture back toward the wall.' 

And those coins placed on Rose Rita's eyes while she was under the captivity of Gert Bigger? Simple research will result in the ages-old tradition of placing coins on the eyes of the recently deceased (as payment for Charon, the boatsman of the River Styx in Hades)! You will definitely not find this in quality of writing in Goosebumps!

Jonathan Abucejo
March 12, 1996