Ghostly goings-on and mysterious magic! Children love scary stories and there are chills aplenty in this thrilling collection. Featuring stories by such wellknown authors as Jan Mark, Virginia Hamilton, Susan Price and Ruskin Bond, this anthology is packed with blood-curdling tension and hilarious horror. Clanking skeletons, moonlit churchyards, strange shadows, ghostly trains and mysterious phantoms appear in these stories, ably illustrated with atmospheric black-and-white drawings. This is the perfect book to read at bedtime on dark, dark nights in dark, dark house...

 

There are 160 pages in this book. This is a short story book. This book was published 2004 by Pan Macmillan .

Jane Olliver was born in New Zealand. She began her career as a teacher before moving into children's publishing as an editor. She was Publishing Director of Grisewood and Dempsey, the book packager and publisher which became Kingfisher Books. Jane lives in Suffolk with her husband and daughter. Annabel Spenceley has illustrated a number of titles for Kingfisher. These include the Bedtime Stories, Spooky Stories and Animal Stories Treasuries. Annabel Spenceley has illustrated many books for children of all ages, both fiction and non-fiction, including Cinderella in the Storyteller series.

This book has the following chapters: The Guitarist - Grace Hallworth; In a Dark, Dark Box - Jane Hollowood; The Fraid - Susan Price; The House that Lacked a Bogle - Sorche Nic Leodhas; Teeny-Tiny: An English Tale - retold by Joseph Jacobs; The Ghost Train - Sydney J. Bounds; A Story about Death - Judith Gorog; Shiver and Shake: Grimm Brothers - retold by Amabel Williams-Ellis; They Wait - Jan Mark; The Wind on Haunted Hill - Ruskin Bond; The Haunting - Margaret Mahy; Ghost Soup: An Indian Tale - retold by John Paton; The Peculiar Such Thing - Virginia Hamilton; The Hairy Toe - Anonymous