New York Times writer David Skaal in his cultural history of Halloween, Death Makes a Holiday, praises Haunted City:

These readings, involving, as they do, direct human communication unmediated by overt commercialism, authentically evoke an earlier age of oral folklore traditions, and are a welcome respite from aggressively frenetic attractions that tend to dominate "Haunted Happenings."
                                                 David Skaal, Death Makes a Holiday

"And all they found was a bloody hook!" Sound familiar? That's because everyone tells the same goddamn scary stories over and over again. Not so at Eerie Events, a decidedly civilized event in Salem, where each year brings five newly crafted ghost stories (some original, some based on literary classics, but all changing year to year). The tales are told in various rooms of historic buildings delivered by actors in period garb. They vary from the creepy and unsettling to the simply odd, but you can't beat the atmospherics of hearing these supernatural tales whispered in darkened rooms.
                                                 David Valdez Greenwood, Boston Phoenix