A spooky tale of a brother and sister's ghostly prank gone wrong when they accidentally summon a real ghost! A cast of interesting characters with a vivid and dimensional art style.

So delightfully creepy. I'm sure my students will love it. I'm hoping for more Mary Downing Hahn graphic novel adaptations!

The story told in All the Lovely Bad Ones feels like a lighter version of The Haunting of Hill House (ghostly, melancholy vibes). It oozes spooky atmosphere which is enhanced by the art featured within. With all of the discourse around the phrase cozy horror, I'd readily give this as an example.

I would say the themes in this are fairly heavy and I was surprised that there were no content warnings given that the selected age range for this is younger. That being said, as an adult, I think the story is quite good and would definitely have me seeking out the original.

Overall, I'd definitely suggest this one, especially to those looking for a short and spooky read around Halloween!

This graphic novel (based on the novel) starts off with two mischievous kids spending the summer with their grandmother. They begin to trick the other inn guests with ghostly pranks, but unbeknownst to them the inn really is haunted. "Trouble finds folks who look for it."

Mary Downing Hall books are classic spooky stories. I'm glad to see them published into a different format. The artwork is really nice..
and terrifying at times. My daughter will love this also!

Thank you NetGalley and HarperCollins Children's Books for providing an advanced reader copy of the book for an honest review. Any quote(s) used in my review have been uncorrected.

78%

This story ended up being pretty wholesome, despite it being surprisingly dark and a lot spookier than I expected it to be. I find that scary stories don't usually translate into graphic novels very well for me personally, but this one did actually keep me on the edge of my seat! It wasn't gory or anything like that, but it was still pretty horrific and tense. I look forward to more of Hahn's stories being adapted into graphic novel format!

A horror story as a middle-grade graphic novel? Bring it on! Also, all children love, love, love spooky and horror stories, especially if they are age-appropriate and not TOO scary. This book is perfect for those – it is both age-appropriate and entertaining.
Also, this book was a nice surprise for me. It had way more text than graphic novels usually do. Yet it is still a graphic novel. It just relies on reading more than just most graphic novels.
I see it as a nice way to make kids read a little bit more than most graphic novels!
Did I say that this book is just brilliant? It is. The story is awesome, the art is nice, and I loved how it is not shallow, how there is more depth and inner monologues sneaked in with the text.

Thank you to Netgalley and HarperCollins for the ARC. All opinions are my own.

I don't want to spoil the book, so I'll just say these few things: I highly recommend All the Lovely Bad Ones, it was spooky, atmospheric, very well-written and illustrated.

The premise of this story sounded cool, two tweens staying at their grandmother's haunted inn for a summer and going on ghost adventures. Not only that, it's set in Vermont, a place I have a forever soft spot for after having lived there for a bit when I was younger. I'm a fan of middle-grade horror, so I thought that this graphic novel would be right up my alley.

Unfortunately, the execution of this story was a huge letdown. I believe that this is an adaptation of a book previously written by the same author, and I have to wonder if it's just a poor adaptation.

One of the biggest gripes I had with this graphic novel is that it's overwritten and relies WAY too heavily on dialogue and inner narration from the characters. There is SO much text in every single frame. It felt like paragraphs were just copied and pasted from the novel and put into the dialogue & narrative blocks in the illustration panels. The majority of the visuals are also just of characters talking back and forth, which results in a huge lack of visual storytelling in this adaptation. If your graphic novel is relying most heavily on text for its storytelling, then what's the point of it being a graphic novel?

Overall, I found the prose to be clunky and overwritten. The dialogue style and tone really didn't change between characters (even though they varied widely in age and background) and felt stiff. The characters themselves felt flat and in need of way more fleshing out. Which perhaps happened more in the novel and had to be cut in the interest of the adaption, I don't know.

The art style itself, I thought was nice, however, I really wish that this graphic novel had leaned into visual storytelling and less on depicting back-and-forth verbal conversations between characters. I thought that the premise behind the haunting was interesting, however, it and the rest of the story didn't come together for me in a meaningful or memorable way.

I teach middle school ELA and one thing always requested is horror and graphic novels. I see my middle schoolers snatching this book up and devouring the spooky images and eerie tone that it sets. The art style definitely lends to the darkness of the story's atmosphere and the depth of detail was fantastic. I wasn't sure at the beginning what exactly was going to happen, if it was going to go in a realistic or fantastical, and I really enjoyed the twist and turns the story took.

They did a great job adapting the All the Lovely Bad Ones book into a graphic novel.

All the Lovely Bad Ones is a creepy story with interesting characters. Once you start reading the graphic novel, you won't want to put it down. The artwork is great and adds to the story.

I recommend it to all horror fans.

Omg, I was incredibly excited to read this and did so in one sitting. “Wait Till Helen Comes” is one of my childhood favorites and I did not realize these amazing books are being made into graphic novels. it was so fun to read this book but also a little sad. Seeing the story of the bad ones unfold was touching but also heartbreaking. Knowing that Ada wont be able to hurt them anymore was some sweet justice, seeing as how she was taken down. And watching the two grandkids grow from mischievous to saviors of local history, was awesome. Not your typical summer vacation!

Would I have loved this if I had the nostalgia of reading the original book from which this graphic novel is adapted? I think so. Did I still enjoy it and will I read the original? Yes to both (but eventually to the latter…this TBR is LONG!). I love a fun, spooky time and this book delivers in that regard but this was my first foray into this author’s works and I felt like I was missing something. The artwork had that nostalgic vibe that I wish I had from reading the original but thoroughly loved in the art style. Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC!

Another excellent graphic title from Mary Downing Hahn. Middle grade readers will be pleased with the story and supernatural happenings that do not hold back despite being aimed at a younger audience.

The MC Travis and his sister Corey are sent to live with their grandmother for the summer. Travis and Corey are known pranksters who have been banned from multiple summer camps. When they arrive at their grandmother’s inn and hear about its haunted past, Travis and Corey gear up for their ultimate prank: impersonating as ghosts. What starts off as an innocent trick becomes dangerous when real ghosts make their appearance. “The Bad Ones” cause all kinds of mischief and scare off guests; but even worse, their grandmother does not believe in ghosts. She blames Travis and Corey for all of the shenanigans and threatens to send them back home. Can Travis and Corey discover who the bad ones really are and why they’re back before their grandmother makes them leave?

With eye-catching colors and a quick-paced story, readers will enjoy this tale of a haunted Vermont Inn.

Corey and Travis are sent to their grandmother's reportedly-haunted inn for the summer. They decide to make their time more fun, and help bring in guests, by creating some hauntings of their own. Their pranks awake sleeping ghosts from the inn's past; things escalate quickly.

Highlighted by vibrant artwork, this adaptation successfully balances the present narrative with Corey and Travis's exploration of the ghosts' story. It's a graphic novel with a lot of heart.

Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC!

I really enjoyed this! It was a surprisingly complex and emotional story and I loved the clean and expressive art style.

My only complaint was that there was too much narration. In a visual medium, it felt like there was too much telling and not enough showing. For example, there was a part where the text said "grandma actually blushed." Seemed like a missed opportunity to do a close up panel on her blushing face.

That preference aside, I would definitely recommend this to kids and teens 10+ who are looking for a fun, spooky read!

This graphic novel is an adaptation of the novel All the Lovely Bad Ones by Mary Downing Hahn. I haven't read the original novel, so I can't speak to how closely this adaptation follows the original, but I CAN say that reading the graphic novel does make me want to give the novel a try. I imagine that the novel is every bit as creepy (if not more so)!

All the Lovely Bad Ones is about a brother and sister that are staying with their grandmother at her inn for the summer. They enjoy playing pranks and when they discover that the inn has been rumored to be haunted, they can't resist the temptation to scare the inn's visitors. However, things go a little further than they anticipate and soon the siblings are the ones that are being frightened. They need to clear their names and prove that they're not the ones causing all the mayhem that is scaring everybody.

All the Lovely Bad Ones is an enjoyable middle grade horror book. I enjoyed that it was creepy without being over-the-top scary. The title was woven into the story and eventually explained as more of the backstory was revealed. The illustrations in this graphic novel greatly added to the atmosphere of the story with mysterious, and at times creepy, visuals.

This is a book that I would recommend to middle grade readers that are looking for a "scary" book. I also have high school students that are HUGE Mary Downing Hahn fans and I think they would love revisiting her books through the graphic novel adaptations.

Before I jump into a review, let me start by saying that these graphic novel renderings of Mary Downing Hahn's works are a must purchase for every middle grades and children's library collection. They are beautifully done and capture the spirit of her work in a way that children love. I will be preordering several copies of this graphic novel as soon as our supplier allows, because I know without a shadow of a doubt that it will be one of my top circulators for the 2023-2024 school year.

When Travis and his sister, Corey, find themselves packed off to spend the summer at their grandmother's remote Vermont inn, they think they'll be bored by week two. When, upon arriving, they find out that the inn used to suffer from a well-documented haunting, they find their summer plans looking up. Maybe, they think, it's time for the ghosts to wake up again. What starts as a mostly harmless prank turns far more serious when they realize their playacting has awakened a darker presence at the Fox Hill Inn; one they'll be lucky to survive. Rendered beautifully (and scarily!) in full color, librarian will want to mark their calendars for the release of "All the Lovely Bad Ones!"

I hope the author will continue this series of graphic novels. We have purchased all of the other titles in the collection and they routinely have a waitlist three or four children deep. The illustrator and the author know exactly what will draw in middle grade readers and they execute it flawlessly. Recommended for anyone who is looking to build up their horror or graphic novel collection, fans who wished Raina Telgemeier's "Ghosts" was a little more scary and a little less playful, and anyone who wants to convince their kids to branch out from graphic novels to traditional novels. We have found that once kids finish off the graphic novel collection they devour the rest of Mary Downing Hahn's back catalog with an equal ferocity. Special thanks to NetGalley and to Clarion Books for providing an Advanced Reader's Copy of "All the Lovely Bad Ones" in exchange for an unbiased review!

I read All the Lovely Bad Ones for the first time last year. I went on a Mary Downing Hahn kick to pay tribute to the younger me.

I think it is a really cool idea to adapt a book into a graphic novel. The most important thing about reading and books is that it be available for everyone. Some people can read and picture in their heads the story and others need visuals! Both are perfectly okay! If you like graphic novels over regular printed books you should have equal access! It’s also a great way to revamp a classic. Whatever gets someone to start reading is great by me!

MDH does a wonderful job of mixing ghost stories and making them kid/YA friendly in a way that adults can still enjoy. All of the books I’ve read of hers have moments where I’m actually a little afraid! When I was younger (and honestly still) I craved being scared. I was constantly searching for books about ghosts. My teacher read Wait Till Helen Comes to the class and I wish I had been encouraged to search out more books by MDH. It would’ve set my little spooky heart on fire! I love that kids today can continue reading her books.

The Inn at Fox Hill in the graphic novel reminded me of The Pink Palace in Coraline. It was cool to see what images matched up with the ones I created in my mind when originally reading.

The graphics of the ghosts are actually pretty creepy! Not so scary that you’d have nightmares but enough to get the thrill! The story of the children is very sad so be prepared for some conversations later if your child reads this book.

I loved searching for all the little hidden details in each comic. The artists captured so much in each small frame! It’s amazing!

I highly recommend the graphic novel for All the Lovely Bad Ones by Mary Downing Hall! I think it would be a great book to recommend for younger kids getting into reading bigger books. If you love classic ghost stories, this is the book for you! Make sure to check out the other graphic novel adaptations as well. Thank you to Netgalley and Mary Downing Hahn and team for the opportunity to read this book. I have written this review voluntarily.

My students love Mary Downing Hahn's books. This title is very popular. They also love graphic novels. This is going to be an extremely popular book for them. It is the best of both worlds. This book is well done, The illustrations captivate the reader and leave them wanting more.

Thank you to Netgalley and HarperCollins Children's Books, Clarion Books for the eARC.

This was a fun little ghost story despite how deep it delved into the topic of poor farms and suffering. I do, however, wish the buildup to the supernatural events took less time and we spent more time with the ghosts -- especially with how long it took the Grandmother to come around and begin believing in the very obvious haunting. All in all, 4 stars.