Book Review: Ghost Host

A HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL STAR TEAMS UP WITH A NERD TO FIGHT A POLTERGEIST

There aren’t a lot of scary teen books out there about the everyday concerns of hetero, cisgender boys. Many are surface level: Will I pass the test? Will the girl go out with me? Who is the killer? Am I The One? Ghost Host stands out among the hundreds of 80s/90s horror I’ve read due to a focus on sports and Bart’s inner world, and if the novel had not added these things and kept up the pace, it just would have been Twilight with ghosts instead of vampires.