I read this for the first time when I was quite young. It was my brother's book, but we never bothered with his or mine when I was little. Or at least, I didn't. He had a lot of interesting books. And, this one had an interesting cover, a boy, and a girl in a room and the blurb must have intrigued me (can't remember). But anyway, the story was engrossing for me, I wasn't used to reading that much suspense when I was so young so I was probably quite enthralled with the book. It's one of those books that you remember loving so much when you have grown up.

So, a couple of years ago I bought the book in English to re-read it. To be honest, it was not as suspenseful as it was when I was younger, but it was damn well still very good. The story still works so well. The old house, the mysterious things that happen there still intrigued me so many years later.

I should perhaps check to see if Judith St. George has written more interesting books... ( )

It took me years to hunt down this book, which I vividly remembered reading in middle school. The super-duper unique title sure made this book easier to find after twenty years.

All that time I spent Googling weird strings of keywords (YA, Nazi, insulin, horror. Or: diabetes, cat, German, attack dog, book, ghost.) probably put me on some sort of watch list. But when I finally chanced upon the correct combination of words and recognized the bizarre cover I squealed. I immediately ordered a copy because the library didn't have it.

It was not as tense and horrifying as I remember, but not as puerile and silly as I feared. Actually, it wasn't half bad. Good enough to keep. Good enough to re-read again.

I just wanted everyone to know that if you, too, remember reading a book about a kid who house-sits a mansion where a murder/suicide took place and that there was something about Nazis and something about a white cat and something about insulin and something about an attack dog (or something), you are not hallucinating. You are thinking of Haunted by Judith St. George. You're welcome. ( )

I read this for the first time when I was quite young. It was my brothers book, but we never bothered with his or mine when I was little. Or at least, I didn't. He had a lot of interesting books. And, this one had an interesting cover, a boy, and a girl in a room and the blurb must have intrigued me (can't remember). But anyway, the story was engrossing for me, I wasn't used to reading that much suspense when I was so young so I was probably quite enthralled with the book. It's one of those books that you remember loving so much when you have grown up.

So, a couple of years ago I bought the book in English to re-read it. To be honest, it was not as suspenseful as it was when I was younger, but it was damn well still very good. The story still works so well. The old house, the mysterious things that happen there still intrigued me so many years later.

I should perhaps check to see if Judith St. George has written more interesting books... ( )