There were a few interesting stories in here but a lot of them didn't really keep my attention, and many of them ended very abruptly kind of left me wondering what the 'point' was. Things do come together a bit at the end when we learn about Uncle Montague's backstory, but I still found myself bored by a lot of the stories. The stories might be more entertaining for younger readers, but I don't think they translate well to an adult audience. Also there's a lot of pretty messed up stuff including animal death so I'm not sure how appropriate it would be for VERY young children either. Although I read all those Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark books when I was kid and I turned out ...more or less okay ;)