The Tale of the Tailor and the Three Dead Kings in my honest opinion will be more interesting to people who have a genuine interest in history as opposed to people who have an interest in ghost stories. I say this because I believe to truly appreciate this ghost story you have to realize this is more a translation with just a small amount of added flair than it is a retelling. I think if this was a true retelling or an inspired by version then I could see more ghost story lovers being drawn to this, as ultimately I think they would be disappointed with this particular version. I say this as going off of the synopsis focusing very heavily on it being a retelling of a medieval ghost story, and less on it being a newly translated piece of work.

The story itself is interesting and moves extremely quickly, and I have to say the introduction by Jones honestly built it up more than it actually was. And for what happens to Snowball I can completely understand why during it's time it was considered scary. For me this wasn't exactly scary but more weird and strange. I could feel the weirdness of the tale more than the scary or creepy and I think the quick abrupt changes, the bluntness and the extremely fast paced is what takes away from the scare factor. I felt I spent more time being bewildered by the cycle of events that where transpiring for Snowball, because he does go through some stuff, I mean he tried to fist fight a raven.

I'm not going to go into to much detail because this story is extremely short and doing so would just give away the whole tale, but I can say I appreciate being able to read this bit of history and have a peek into what ghost stories where like during the 15th century.