This book features in the following series: Kingfisher Story Library, Story Library Series .
There are 222 pages in this book. This is a short story book. This book was published 2002 by Pan Macmillan .
Aidan Chambers is an award-winning children's author and an experienced compiler. He worked for some years as a teacher before deciding to write full time. In 1969 he and his wife Nancy founded The Thimble Press, which publishes Signal, a critical journal devoted to children's literature. His book Postcard from No Man's Land won the Carnegie Medal in 1999. He lives in Gloucestershire. Tim Stevens studied illustration at Camberwell College of Art. He illustrated The Girls in the Velvet Frame (Adele Geras) and Down with the Dirty Danes (Gillian Cross) for HarperCollins. He lives in Suffolk. Aidan Chambers won the Carngie Medal for Postcards from No Man's Land and the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award for the body of his work - the highest international recognition given to creators of children's books. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
This book has the following chapters: The Lonesome Place - August Derleth; Such a Sweet Little Girl - Lance Salway; A Ghost Story - Mark Twain; Footsteps Invisible - Robert Arthur; The Gnomon - Jan Mark; The Haunted and the Haunters - Edward Bulwer-Lytton; If She Bends, She Breaks - John Gordon; Room 18 - Aidan Chambers; Brownie - R Chetwynd-Hayes; The Lamp - Agatha Christie; The Haunting of Chas McGill - Robert Westall; The Tell-Tale Heart - Edgar Allan Poe; The Death of Peggy Morrissey - William Trevor; Christmas in the Rectory - Catherine Storr; The Canterville Ghost - Oscar Wilde
