Campfire Stories: Things That Go Bump In The Night (Campfire Books) Kindle Edition

Fun easy to read stories for campfire or camping bedtime.

I really enjoyed reading this book. Mr. Forgery has some great stores, I cant wait to use these stories with my own scouts next time we are camping.

Fantastic collection of short stories. Must have for any camping trip.

If you were lured to this book by Paul Hoffman's cover art, and perhaps thought that it would be similar to S. Schlosser's "Spooky" series that he also illustrates, back away slowly. The only reason that this collection of stories doesn't rate one star is that Dr. Forgey was wise enough to include stories from other (and much more skilled) authors. Dr. Forgey's versions of stories are hackneyed and neutered abortions of the originals, and his original stories are so bad as to not even be worthy of comment. One can only hope that Dr. Forgey is dramatically more skilled at the practice of medicine than he is at storytelling, if only for the sake of his patients' continued existence.With so many choices in this genre, I can only urge a reader to avoid any work by Dr. Forgey, and reach out instead for something by S.E. Schlosser, Jack Kutz, Dan Asfar, or Antonio Garcez. With any of those authors, you will be enthralled and pleased with your scary tale. With a story by Forgey, you will feel disappointed and dismayed that you even wasted the time reading his dreck, that is unless you have a penchant for poor story telling and cheese in literary form.

If you are going to share these stories round a campfire then you'll need to read them in advance and make up your own shorter versions to tell. They are a bit long-winded in style but content is better that lots of other campfire books for kids that I have downloaded and been very diassapointed with.