Waking late at night, Stella discovers her friend Daniel at her door, terrified, pleading to be let in. The fearful scratching sounds that follow give credence to his tale of haunted woods and creepy scrabbling twigs. Soon after, the two friends save a woman from her burning house, not realizing at first that the two occurrences are linked. But then a psychic investigator arrives and, as events quickly become even more sinister and dramatic, there seems to be only one conclusion: some weird, supernatural power is at work. A power that threatens to consume anyone in its path. Hugh Scott has also written "The Shaman's Stone", "Freddie and the Enormouse"; "The Camera Obscura"; "Why Weeps the Brogan?" (Winner of the 1989 Whitbread Children's Novel Award and shortlisted for the 1990 McVitie Prize); "The Haunted Sand"; "Something Watching"; "The Gargoyle"; "A Box of Tricks"; "A Ghost Waiting"; "The Summertime Santa" and "Change the King!".

 

There are 178 pages in this book. This book was published 1995 by Walker Books Ltd .