Haunted Canada 12: More Frightening True Tales

The 1980 CBC movie The Changeling has one of the best séance scenes that has been captured on film. This scene is one of the most effective and chilling scenes that I have personally ever seen or heard, until now! In his new anthology, Haunted Canada 12: More Frightening True Tales, Sutherland gives us another Canadian séance experience that most readers will not likely forget and may cause trouble in sleeping.

Again, Joel Sutherland has proven his immense talent in his writing. These true tales are slick, concise and generally to the point, but with enough description and effective word choices that these tales jump off the page and right to your ever raising heartbeat. As a 40 something male, I find these tales chilling and incredibly effective to stir the imagination and completely “freak myself out”, and I am a horror aficionado.

The introduction to the book affirms that these stories are true and that Sutherland, himself, did a great deal of research on these cases to be able to tell them authentically. Sutherland also does a great job structuring these chapters, painting a picture to get the imagination going and then leaving you to be creeped out by the supernatural.

The anthology also has some very chilling black and white sketches by Steven P Hughes to scare readers a little bit more and to also add a bit of a visual about the location of these hauntings. There are also a few photos distributed throughout the book for the readers’ enjoyment and to add to the macabre of the tales.

Joel Sutherland has almost made it to 13 titles in this series which I hope he is able to do so, and maybe even keep on going until they get to 666 titles in the “Haunted Canada” series.