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lamijav's review
4.0
A short horror story about a child’s imaginary friend – assigned in English class to check comprehension skills.
Very creepy, very descriptive. It’s worth checking out
>>>4 stars
Very creepy, very descriptive. It’s worth checking out
>>>4 stars
sapphic_shroom's review
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
5.0
God I loved every single part of this. The dread, the mother's horror when she realises what's about to happen and the fact that she can't stop it. The pacing and direction the story takes. The characters. It's been a while since a story made me feel properly uneasy, and this one accomplished that.
calistareads's review
4.0
This little story is very atmospheric. It's told from a mother's point of view watching her daughter, who is adopted. The daughter has an imaginary friend named Harry and simply mentioning Harry makes the mother feel very creeped out. She doesn't like Harry and won't let Harry come in to visit. This is our set-up.
The story is collected in 'Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories' and is about 11 pages long or so. It has a nice little pay off, and one can see it coming. I think the pay off would be better for someone much younger. It's easy to read this to a group of kids with how short it is. Kids are so sophisticated nowadays they can probably guess the outcome as well.
The short story was written in the 50s and the writing is pretty good.
The story is collected in 'Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories' and is about 11 pages long or so. It has a nice little pay off, and one can see it coming. I think the pay off would be better for someone much younger. It's easy to read this to a group of kids with how short it is. Kids are so sophisticated nowadays they can probably guess the outcome as well.
The short story was written in the 50s and the writing is pretty good.
pulpcreepy's review
3.0
6/10
Curiously, this is also a story I find myself already familiar with, although this time not in the shape of a podcast but of a creepypasta I read back when I was around 12, namely Laughing Jack which was clearly loosely based around this, with a few lines and plotpoints being directly lifted from the source material. It’s a lovely enough story with a bittersweet ending, this definitely classifies as a proper classic that deserves to be more well known.
The style of writing feels very much of its age, which is by no means a negative aspect. On the contrary, it elevates what is a fairly barebones and cliched story and it’s it that little bit of extra flare and personality that very much made it an easy read. Having said that, however, the story is very much something that won’t shock you in the slightest if you’ve even brushed with the genre of terror, so I find it hard to give it anything more than a 6, seeing as while it’s definitely charming and almost whimsical in its dread, I’ve seen versions of this very same tale that I would much prefer to revisit.
Curiously, this is also a story I find myself already familiar with, although this time not in the shape of a podcast but of a creepypasta I read back when I was around 12, namely Laughing Jack which was clearly loosely based around this, with a few lines and plotpoints being directly lifted from the source material. It’s a lovely enough story with a bittersweet ending, this definitely classifies as a proper classic that deserves to be more well known.
The style of writing feels very much of its age, which is by no means a negative aspect. On the contrary, it elevates what is a fairly barebones and cliched story and it’s it that little bit of extra flare and personality that very much made it an easy read. Having said that, however, the story is very much something that won’t shock you in the slightest if you’ve even brushed with the genre of terror, so I find it hard to give it anything more than a 6, seeing as while it’s definitely charming and almost whimsical in its dread, I’ve seen versions of this very same tale that I would much prefer to revisit.
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