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Haunted Canada 4: More True Tales of Terror
The popular series of Canadian ghost stories is back and scarier than ever!
An abandoned asylum in Victoria, the most filmed site in Canada, is alive with inexplicable sights and sounds. Multiple men are found decapitated in the woods near the Northwest Territories' Nahanni National Park Reserve . . . over a 50 year period. Guests at the Bytown Museum in Ottawa have heard cries coming from the doll exhibit, and report seeing the dolls move and wink. A mysterious figure stands at the edge of the rocky shores of Peggy's Cove, looking as if she is about to jump.
The ghoulishly good fourth book in the Haunted Canada series is full of more than 25 sinister, unsettling, and absolutely true ghost stories from across the country. Settle in for an evening of hair-raising thrills and chills in this brand-new volume of haunting encounters and unexplained incidents!
Bram Stoker Award-nominee Joel A. Sutherland brings a fresh approach to this favourite scary series.
An abandoned asylum in Victoria, the most filmed site in Canada, is alive with inexplicable sights and sounds. Multiple men are found decapitated in the woods near the Northwest Territories' Nahanni National Park Reserve . . . over a 50 year period. Guests at the Bytown Museum in Ottawa have heard cries coming from the doll exhibit, and report seeing the dolls move and wink. A mysterious figure stands at the edge of the rocky shores of Peggy's Cove, looking as if she is about to jump.
The ghoulishly good fourth book in the Haunted Canada series is full of more than 25 sinister, unsettling, and absolutely true ghost stories from across the country. Settle in for an evening of hair-raising thrills and chills in this brand-new volume of haunting encounters and unexplained incidents!
Bram Stoker Award-nominee Joel A. Sutherland brings a fresh approach to this favourite scary series.
117 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 2014
About the author
Joel A. Sutherland
43 books137 followersJoel A. Sutherland is the Silver Birch and Hackmatack Award-winning author of Be a Writing Superstar, numerous books in the Haunted Canada series, and Summer's End. His new series, Haunted, including The House Next Door, Kill Screen, Night of the Living Dolls and Field of Screams, has been praised by Goosebumps author R.L. Stine. Joel's short fiction has appeared in many anthologies and magazines, including Blood Lite II & III (Pocket Books) and Cemetery Dance Magazine, alongside the likes of Stephen King and Neil Gaiman.
He is a two-time juror for the Bram Stoker Award, the John Spray Mystery Award, and the Monica Hughes Award for Science Fiction & Fantasy. He is also the founder of the DarkLit Fest, a literary event that has welcomed Guests of Honour Kelley Armstrong and Joy Fielding.
Joel appeared as "The Barbarian Librarian" on the Canadian edition of the hit television show Wipeout, making it all the way to the third round and proving that librarians can be just as tough and crazy as anyone else. He has a Masters of Information and Library Studies from Aberystwyth University in Wales and lives in southeastern Ontario with his family, where he is always on the lookout for ghosts.
He is a two-time juror for the Bram Stoker Award, the John Spray Mystery Award, and the Monica Hughes Award for Science Fiction & Fantasy. He is also the founder of the DarkLit Fest, a literary event that has welcomed Guests of Honour Kelley Armstrong and Joy Fielding.
Joel appeared as "The Barbarian Librarian" on the Canadian edition of the hit television show Wipeout, making it all the way to the third round and proving that librarians can be just as tough and crazy as anyone else. He has a Masters of Information and Library Studies from Aberystwyth University in Wales and lives in southeastern Ontario with his family, where he is always on the lookout for ghosts.
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November 6, 2024
Sorry, but there there is just something about Joel A. Sutherland's attitude towards those of us who do not really believe in the existence ghosts or those of us who require a trifle more factual proof (or bona fide personal experiences with hauntings) before considering phantoms and such as something that is actually real, as something that does in fact occur and represents bona fide reality which I personally find both massively uncomfortable and also rather frustratingly and presumptively insulting. Because in my not so humble opinion, there appears to be a rather hugely entitled and arrogantly full of himself viewpoint regarding ghosts presented by Sutherland in both his introduction and in his epilogue of Haunted Canada 4: More Tales of Terror of basically "you had better believe that ghosts are real, or else" that really and truly has majorly been rubbing me the wrong proverbial way.
For in the first three books of the Haunted Canada series, while author Pat Hancock is certainly attempting to show her collected accounts of Canadian ghost as being possibly true and maybe representing reality, she also NEVER ONCE expects and demands of her audience (her readers from about the age of nine or so onwards) to totally and uncritically believe. And indeed, Hancock certainly and very much unlike Joel A. Sutherland in Haunted Canada 4: More True Tales of Terror also never once seems to actively goad her readers or to consider individuals as naive and as silly if they in fact are not at ease and comfortable with believing in the reality of the supernatural and the ghostly, and with Sutherland totally different and opposite my way or the proverbial highway attitude that ghosts are true and must be real with no questioning really being permitted having most definitely and majorly negatively affected my reading pleasure, with me also being very much annoyed and furious with his, with Joel A. Sutherland's sense of factual and philosophical unbalance (and in particular so because Haunted Canada 4: More True Tales of Terror is equally penned in a manner so as to be really deliberately frightening and spooky, that Sutherland seems mostly interested in textually frightening and not really in enlightening his readers, and that he basically only seems to respect those of us who have no doubts about ghosts being legitimate and real and that the doubters are seemingly pretty well useless and bordering on being totally ridiculous and lacking in everything).
And thus, with Haunted Canada 4: More True Tales of Terror and both Joel A. Sutherland's views regarding ghosts having most definitely left me quite thoroughly disappointed, I am also pretty well uninterested in continuing on with books five to eleven (for now at least), as I doubt I am going to suddenly start liking and appreciating the author’s uncritical acceptance of accounts of ghosts and hauntings always or a least usually being real, and well, I just do not really feel like reading any more stories from Sutherland's uncritical pen at present (and especially so since I would have to purchase copies, since books five to eleven of the Haunted Canada series are neither to be found at my local library nor on Open Library).
For in the first three books of the Haunted Canada series, while author Pat Hancock is certainly attempting to show her collected accounts of Canadian ghost as being possibly true and maybe representing reality, she also NEVER ONCE expects and demands of her audience (her readers from about the age of nine or so onwards) to totally and uncritically believe. And indeed, Hancock certainly and very much unlike Joel A. Sutherland in Haunted Canada 4: More True Tales of Terror also never once seems to actively goad her readers or to consider individuals as naive and as silly if they in fact are not at ease and comfortable with believing in the reality of the supernatural and the ghostly, and with Sutherland totally different and opposite my way or the proverbial highway attitude that ghosts are true and must be real with no questioning really being permitted having most definitely and majorly negatively affected my reading pleasure, with me also being very much annoyed and furious with his, with Joel A. Sutherland's sense of factual and philosophical unbalance (and in particular so because Haunted Canada 4: More True Tales of Terror is equally penned in a manner so as to be really deliberately frightening and spooky, that Sutherland seems mostly interested in textually frightening and not really in enlightening his readers, and that he basically only seems to respect those of us who have no doubts about ghosts being legitimate and real and that the doubters are seemingly pretty well useless and bordering on being totally ridiculous and lacking in everything).
And thus, with Haunted Canada 4: More True Tales of Terror and both Joel A. Sutherland's views regarding ghosts having most definitely left me quite thoroughly disappointed, I am also pretty well uninterested in continuing on with books five to eleven (for now at least), as I doubt I am going to suddenly start liking and appreciating the author’s uncritical acceptance of accounts of ghosts and hauntings always or a least usually being real, and well, I just do not really feel like reading any more stories from Sutherland's uncritical pen at present (and especially so since I would have to purchase copies, since books five to eleven of the Haunted Canada series are neither to be found at my local library nor on Open Library).
July 28, 2022
Good stories from coast to coast!! I now want to seek out some of these spirits.
October 22, 2019
This volume marks a new author taking over the series and he does a great job, writing style is very similar to the lady before so it's not jarring. The stories in this one were really good and maybe a bit darker. I enjoyed it.
October 23, 2019
Joel Sutherland does an excellent job of taking over from Pat Hancock. It isn't jarring at all as the writing styles are so similar. It's a very nice and fluid transition and the stories are every bit as enjoyably spooky.
October 29, 2020
pretty good- nice short little spooky stories. books like that are fun because you can read them on your lunch breaks, etc. like you know each story wont take long to read so you can chip away at it any chance you get and who doesnt love a nice little selection of ghost stories?
May 16, 2021
I wondered why kids liked these books so much. The stick-to-the-facts formula is addictive. It’s hard to stop reading these short chapters of other-worldly mayhem.
Perfect for reluctant readers and anyone else wanting a true tale of terror!
Perfect for reluctant readers and anyone else wanting a true tale of terror!
October 30, 2020
haunted places in canada and the stories
October 24, 2022
Contains a St. Andrews story! but is clearly for children.
February 24, 2025
The best book changed my life in so many ways. Please read right now.
May 14, 2026
Haunted Canada 4 is a REALLY good book if you like horror books then you should read this book 📖
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December 14, 2014
An excellent collection of brief tales that combine a bit of history, a bit of an appreciation for the locale with creepy tales that are certain to send a shiver down your spine.
I was particularly delighted with the author's epilogue in which, wanting to have a "ghost experience" of his very own, the author describes what happened when he spend a night in a popular haunted Canadian spot. Having written a few similar ghost collections (and being a little creeped out after just reading the researched materials), I was impressed by Sutherland's fortitude to actually go about this overnight stay and also to record it and post a video documenting his experiences there.
I was particularly delighted with the author's epilogue in which, wanting to have a "ghost experience" of his very own, the author describes what happened when he spend a night in a popular haunted Canadian spot. Having written a few similar ghost collections (and being a little creeped out after just reading the researched materials), I was impressed by Sutherland's fortitude to actually go about this overnight stay and also to record it and post a video documenting his experiences there.
May 19, 2015
This title is nominated for the 2016 Hackmatack award in the non-fiction cateogry.
I am not a big fan of being scared, so this probably isn't something that I would pick up on my own. This series in enduringly popular with kids at our library, so they must be doing something right! Personally I think it would have benefited from more of the author's voice - I really liked the Epilogue where he discussed the night he spent in the haunted Olde Angel Inn at Niagra-on-the-lake. However, I am sure that the kids will eat this one up.
I am not a big fan of being scared, so this probably isn't something that I would pick up on my own. This series in enduringly popular with kids at our library, so they must be doing something right! Personally I think it would have benefited from more of the author's voice - I really liked the Epilogue where he discussed the night he spent in the haunted Olde Angel Inn at Niagra-on-the-lake. However, I am sure that the kids will eat this one up.
August 10, 2015
I am much wimpier than my students, but as I am reading my way through the 2015-16 Hackmack nominated books, I could not let this one pass by. I read it in broad daylight and found it quite interesting and (thankfully) not as scary as I thought! I learned about some ghosts from my corner of Canada. I think my students will find this 4th book in the Haunted Canada series as interesting as the rest!
November 16, 2014
Loved it!!! This was an awesome book! I enjoyed the small glimpses of our Canadian History you don't learn about in school!! I also enjoyed that this book was spooky but not to over the top for my preteen daughter to enjoy with us!! Highly recommend to any one!
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