PSYCHOLOGY
Williams, Dinah

Abandoned Amusement Parks

(4) 4-6 Scary Places series. After brief introductions, busy double-page spreads focus on specific sites, often with anecdotal reports of ghostly encounters. Though the hectic design--featuring photographs, illustrations, and text boxes set on blurry, eerie backgrounds--strains for spooky effect, the texts themselves focus (superficially) on facts while speculating on alleged paranormal activity. A world map showing the locations is appended. Reading list. Glos., ind. Review covers these Scary Places titles: Tragic Theaters and Abandoned Amusement Parks.

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