8 Ghost Stories door S.H. Burton

Naam schrijver : S H Burton
Jaar eerste uitgave : 1975
Uitgeverij : Longman Group
Aantal bladzijden : 70 blz. Begonnen met Lezen op : 3 Februari
Geëindigd met Lezen op : 7 Februari
Waarom had je dit boek gekozen? : Ik houd wel van spookverhalen, en de andere boekjes leken me echt onwijze saai. Dus toen dacht ik, nou dan doe ik dit boekje maar!! Verwachtingen vooraf : Een “Wannabe” eng verhaal in het Engels. Ik dacht van, ja, die engelse leesboekjes die wij altijd moeten lezen zijn zo erg “Wannabe” verhalen, ze willen te graag leuk of spannend zijn, waardoor het juist niet spannend is!! Dus ik dacht, nou dit zal wel weer zo’n zogenaamd spannend boek zijn.. Eerste reactie Achteraf : Dit was het eerste engelse boekje wat ik leuk vond!! Dit was echt geen “wannabe” verhaal ofzo, het was ook niet echt griezelig, maar het was wel het eerste boekje wat ik leuk vond om te lezen!!!
Tijd + Plaats : Alle verhalen spelen in deze tijd af, maar op andere plaatsen: - Oldcastle Hill à Speelde zich af in een klein dalletje, en dan op zo’n bergje gebeurde het spannendste gedeelte - Room 7 à In een hotel - The doctor’s last visit à In een wijk, in een huis, nr. 23 - Mrs Wood comes home à Bij mensen in een vakantiehuis - The gohst in the garden à In en rond een oud huis - Roger Wingate’s new car à In een auto - A friend of the family à In een oud familie-huis - A birthday card for Mrs. Rogers à Buiten bij een oud vrouwtjes huis De manier van Vertellen : het is allemaal in de verleden tijd geschreven, door een ik-persoon. Op sommige momenten niet, dan is het door een hij/zei persoon geschreven. Personages : - Mr. Robinson, Mrs. Wills, the detective - John Saunders, Mr. Richards, Mrs. Richards, Tom’s father - Police Constable Mitford, a man, Jonathan, a women - Mrs. Woods, Jack Thompson, Bill, Annie - Henry, Mr. Barnes, Joan, Robert Forester - Roger Wingate, Bill Harper, a young girl - Cecily Frobisher, Frederic Frobisher, Isobel Blake, Susan Blake, Terence Blake - Emily Rogers, The postman Wat houd de titel in? : Het zijn eigenlijk gewoon 8 losse verhalen, en dat zijn allemaal spookverhalen. Dus, het woord zegt het gewoon, acht spookverhalen! Vond je het onderwerp leuk of niet leuk? : Ja, ik vond het best wel een leuk onderwerp! Ik houd wel van spookverhalen!! Belangrijke en Minder belangrijke gebeurtenissen in het verhaal : Er zijn zoveel belangrijke en minder belangrijke gebeurtenissen in het verhaal. Als ik die hier allemaal ga typen zijn we tien dagen bezig.. Dus, ik zal het in zijn algemeen zeggen, soms dan praten de personen over hun familie of over hoe lang ze al ergens wonen, en dat zijn minder belangrijke gebeurtenissen. De momenten waarop de personages met een spook in contact komen zijn de belangrijkste gebeurtenissen van het hele verhaal!! Samenvatting : 1. Oldcastle Hill è Mr Robinson lives in a small village, totally alone, just with a cleaner, Mrs. Wills. At one day he decides to get outside to make a trip. He finds a way that he has never seen before. He wanted to go in there. It was a very tiring trip. When he gets upstairs he sees a wall. He climbs on it, and hears voices. He don’t know where they’ve come from. He jumps of the wall at they other side. Something dropped down on him, and he was dead. The detective will find out how it’s happen. He realised that the dead of Mr. Robinson’s isn’t a normal murderer. Something, what wasn’t there, had killed Mr. Robinson. It was a ghost. 2. Room 7 è John Saunders had car-trouble and had had to stay in a hotel. Exactly there weren’t any rooms left. But the hotel managers, (Mr. & Mrs. Richards) decide to give John a room that never has been used. When John goes sleeping, he heard something. He knows that something or someone is watching to him. He looks, and sees a man sitting in a chair. John doesn’t feel afraid, he feels more happy. When he wakes up, he ask why nobody had sleep in there before. Mrs. Richards tells him that the father of Mr. Richard has died in that room, and nobody wants to sleep in there, since they say that there are ghost’s in there… 3. The doctor’s last visit è P.C. Mitford had night work. Everything goes well, but than something weird is happening. A man is running out of a house, and won’t listen to P.C. Mitford, when he calls him back. The man don’t look back, he’s just running. P.C. Mitford decides to take a look in the house. It’s very dirty in there. When he got at the upstairs he heard screaming, and calling. Jonathan no!! he heard. He takes a look in the room where the screaming is coming from. He sees nobody, besides a dead body, what very stinks. It’s a ghost. 4. Mrs. Wood came home è Bill always goes in the holidays to friends of him, to take pictures of the old village they live in. Every year it goes wonderful, but that year went all wrong. Mrs. Wood lives across the street of the house of his friends. She always looks outside to spy on them, because she’s so alone, and friendless. Annie always had helped her, but she got nothing on it. Mrs. Wood hates Annie’s husband, Jack. That year Mrs. Wood was gone, she was to her son in Australia. At one night Bill is photographing houses, and he has the idea that someone is looking at him. But he can’t see anyone. He also toke a picture of the house across the street. When he’s back home, his photo’s are clear. He sees at the photograph from the house from Mrs. Wood a head looking to the windows.. But it is impossible, because Mrs. Wood is gone!! That evening Jack dropped by. He was totally upset. Mrs Wood is dead, but she still lives at us!! He screamed. Mrs Wood had knocked at the door, and Annie had opened it. She shouted, and than dropped dead. It was fear, what kills her. Mrs Wood is still looking at me. I’m scared.. 5. The ghost in the garden è Mr & Mrs Chapman have bought a new house. It is their dreaming house. A great garden, a very big tree and so on. It’s weird, because nobody had ever lived in that house, since Robert Forester had died there. At a dark, windy night Joan hears knocking on the window. She’s scared to death. Her husband also. They decide to take a look.. When the open the curtains a man is hanging there. A white face looks sad at them. They both scream. The next day mr. Barnes is coming to visit them. He tells them the story of Robert Forester. It was a man who had been guilty of nothing. Nobody believes them, and since then he always flying around at the day he died. They went pray on the grave of Robert Forester, to say that they believe them. End

6. Roger Wingate’s new car è Roger had bought a new car. It was a very nice, beautiful car, and it drove delicious. But when Mr. Wingate’s arrives at the traffic-light someone/something is speaking to him. He scares to death. He went to an old friend of him, and asks what’s going on. Bill says that he had had to record the voice when he’s by the traffic-lights. Roger does that. He let it hear to Bill, and also Bills scares. They decide to go drive together to listen what it says. When they are at the traffic lights, the voice goes again : “Turn left here”. They do. A young girl is standing near the road. She runs at the road, and jumps for the car. They both screaming. But it was a ghost, this accident had been were years ago! Roger’s car was the car who killed the car.. He’d never drove again in that car
7. A friend of the family è Cecily & Frederic are living in a big house, a house that was from a friend of them. The house was been in the family for years, but the family hadn’t got any mony more, so they have to buy it. At a day Cecily & Frederic got a letter. It says that Isobel, the daughter of a friend of them, is coming to sleep with them, for a couple of years. That’s all right to Cecily & Frederic. When the girl arrived, they already know that she was strange. A 16 years old girl, whose always sitting on her room? That isn’t normal, isn’t it? They heard her talking to people, but they don’t know to who. Isobel says that she wasn’t alone at all! Her grandmother, who had lived there to, was always near her, and they do a lot of nice things. Cecily and Frederic become scared, because they’re feeling that something wasn’t right, and they feeling also that someone or something was looking at them and they had the feeling that Isobel was trying to take over there house. At one night they decide to go, and packed their suitcases. Isobel wasn’t in her room. They went looking for her, everywhere, but they couldn’t find her. The library was locked. They heard Isobel talking to her grandmother. She won’t open the door. They called the police, who broke in the window. Isobel was dead. She had the face of a 90 years old lady… 8. A birthday card for Mrs. Rogers è The postman was delivering letters. He had got all the houses, and he want to go home. But than he heard someone talking to him. “You’ve forgot me, postman!” He turned on, and sees a little, old woman stood there. “It’s my birthday today, and my son always send me a card, or a letter” she said. The postman looks into his bag, but he couldn’t find anything. I’m sorry Mrs. Rogers, but there isn’t anything in my bag.. The old lady turned round and went inside. The postman felt very sad for her. He want to clear her up, but how? He wrote a card for her, just to let her know that the card will be come soon. When he wanted to deliver the card, a woman across the street says: “What are you doing, postman? There doesn’t live anyone! There had been lived Mrs. Rogers, but she’s dead. On her birthday for god sack! Her son didn’t send her a card that year, because he died. A telegram came later, and she died of fear.” …