Short spooky stories. I don't like horror as a genre. These stories are very clever and not scary, just spooky ☺ Very amusing. Highly recommend.

I only read the title story. Did not like it, so I took the book back to the library. Summer is only so long.

The Ribbajack & other Haunting Yarns is a book of short stories. I gave it a three because some of the short stories, I felt were lacking. But The short stories; Ribbajack, Miggy Mags and the Malabar Sailor, and Rosie's Pet were all very good stories. This is a great book if you have extra time on your hands and need a funny or interesting "yarn" to tide you over.

Brain Jacques is a great author and this book is great! filled with great stories!

The late Brian Jacques, Liverpool author of the "Redwall" series (begun in 1986, and ending with the posthumous release of "The Rogue Crew" in March pf 2011), should have received the world-wide acclaim that J.K. Rowling justly received for the "Harry Potter" novels two decades later. Jacques' powerful sense of narrative, his richly-developed characters, and his unerring ability to judge where to draw the line between keeping a children's story childlike, yet intelligent enough both to educate the child for adulthood, and to keep that child entertained, were a quality too rarely found in children's writers.

Occasionally, though, Jacques turned his attention to other written works. In this collection of children's short-stories, Jacques exercised his inner-Stephen King, but in the form of a good campfire ghost-story. (He was still writing for kids here.) With the crisp, uncluttered style that was his trademark, Jacques tells six tales that will be likely to keep your children sleeping with the light on for at least a few nights. And wasn't that part of the fun of growing up for most of us?

I may be jumping the gun on this one, as I have one last short story to read, but based on the first five stories alone, I can say that I enjoy the late Mr. Jacques's YA horror stories. As popular as his Redwall books are, I'm a bit ashamed to admit that this is the first of his books I've picked up, and that the only reason I bought it is that our library was selling it for $0.50 the day I went to hear Rick Yancey speak about his then-upcoming Monstrumologist sequel a couple Octobers ago. I decided to finish it this month because I have about 30 kids'/YA titles to read before this year's All Hallow's Read, including some classics I unfortunately missed out on as a kid. I only hope I enjoy the others as much as this I have this one!
UPDATE: I just finished the last story, and I stand by my 4-star review. I really enjoyed the last story, as I did all of them!

What a delicious romp through the imagination! Jacques never disappoints in this collection of short stories. From the titular "The Ribbajack" to the charming "Miggy Mags and the Malabar Sailor", I was enchanted and delighted. While a few of the stories are creepy ("A Smile and a Wave" comes to mind), all are lovely reads to enjoy on a cold, winter's night and they all contain laugh-out-loud bits of humor.

It's entertaining, but definitely for young children.

good bedtime reading

Fun, sometimes unsettling stories from a master storyteller.

While some authors are merely writers, Jacques is a true storyteller. The half-dozen tales in this book are a true delight--read this book and see a master at work.

I liked 2 out of 6 or 7 stories. The first and the second one were the only good ones, the rest weren't good at all. I wouldn't recommend these because, I think the other ones weren't as good, and you should've focused on the second one more too.