X Files YA #09 Hungry Ghosts

by Ellen Steiber and Cliff Nielsen

Book Overview

It is Yu Lan in San Francisco's Chinatown, the Festival of the Hungry Ghosts -- a time of year when offerings are made to appease the ghosts roaming the earth. Only this time several murders have... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0064471780
• ISBN13: 9780064471787
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: HarperEntertainment
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.2" x 6.8"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Want To Play

I just read the book The X Files THe Hungry Ghosts by Ellen Steiber. It was a great book. It's about a man named Johnny Lo. he was murderd in a crematorium by ghosts. Agent Mulder and Scully investigated the crime. It only gets more interteristing.They meet a man named Glen Hisen. They find out that he was involved in a game. If you get a good draw you win lots of money. If you get a bad draw you will die. This book was very exciting and it is a hard book to turn down. Read this book and find out what happens next.

Just cant put it down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This book is about a chinese holiday which ghost come to look for food.A man named Xin gets into a gaming game which can cause him his life.He did lose one eye.If you want to know the whole story then read the book is very good.

Comment on the research done for this story

The author has clearly done his work or he himself has known about this Chinese festivals long ago. I'm a Chinese and found that there are some parts of the story about the Hungry Ghosts Festival quite true but some far from reality. the Hungry Ghosts Festival is not about the dead coming back to take revenge. Instead the dead just rises and comes back to recieve their loved ones. Actually it's just a festival celebrated and prepared by us, the Chinese. Not really as scary as in the book.

Non stop thrill of action

This book has a good climax the book suspence you. It has alot of action and some sad parts.About when Hsin has a daugther that has cancer and he does not want her to die not like her mother.I do recomend this book to others that like mystories because it has a litle mystory you must find out in this book.

Hungry Ghosts

In San Francisco's Chinatown it is Yu Lan Hui, the Festival of the Hungry Ghosts which is a time when people give stuff like food and hell money to please the ghosts roaming the earth.But this time several of murders have happened,and the last victim left behind a clue which was one message:the chinese character:Ghost. The people of Chinatown are afraid that thier offerings weren't enough and it didn't please the ghosts. They also think that they are seeking revendge on Earth.But when Special Agents Mulder and Scully investigate they find a life risking lottery run by a secret society of chinese immigrants. And the one who wins, wins a large number of money. But if you lose it could mean losing your life.