Small Spaces

Small Spaces took me a minute to get into it, I'm not sure why, but once it got going I was hooked and in for the ride. A young girl finds a book that spins a ghost story about one dead brother and another that makes a pact with a “smiling man” to bring him back. Over a hundred years later, Ollie's class visits the farm where that pact was made and now her field trip becomes a nightmare in which she must save herself and her classmates from a nightmare. Honestly, it's fabulous.
It's less terrifying and more awe-inducing watching Ollie use old fashioned pluck to figure this out. Seriously, the Scooby gang would be mad impressed.
I guess I should go read Arden's other work now.