Familiar and Haunting

This is a large collection of Phillipa Pearce's horror short stories. The problem is after 392 pages it's a bit too much and they start to feel samey. I liked it though. I would have given it a 3.5 on goodreads but they don't do half stars for some reason. What amazed me about the book is that some of the stories are a little too violent for children like "The Rope" and "Mr. Hurrel's Tallboy." The ones I liked the most were "Still Jim and Silent Jim" and I liked the one about the horrible aunt who puts a mice trap in a barrel to punish her overweight niece. That woman was such a villain. But really Pearce's masterpiece was Tom's Midnight Garden which I'll review next week.