PositiveThe Times Literary SupplementAt first glance Guestbook appears more like an exhibition catalogue than a collection of ghost stories. This is a piece of trickeery of the sort that the writer and artist Leanne Shapton has cultivated for thirteen years, telling her stories through both words and images ... Death, however, is the big thing here; a fog seems to hang over Shapton’s pages. To potentially banal subject matter...she brings an inflection of uncanniness ... At other points...when it seems Shapton is venturing into conventional ghost story territory, only for the narrative to an end abruptly and without explanation. Yet this is arguably one of the qualities that makes Guestbook a collection of ghost stories of the disoriented twenty-first century, not least in its various online guises. Here are \'Ghosts. Not ghost stories\'...
