A brilliant collection of three short stories from a master story-teller, who will keep you turning the pages until the very end. The chilling title story tells of a young apprentice who makes a pact with a strange old man one New Year's Eve to rid the world of Mr Corbett, his cruel employer. Sure enough Mr Corbett meets an untimely death, but the tables turn on the terrified apprentice who finds himself cursed with the ghost of the man he hated most in the world...

 

This book features in the following series: Oxford Children's Modern Classics, Oxford Childrens Modern Classics .

This book is aimed at children in primary school.

There are 137 pages in this book. This is a short story book. This book was published 1999 by Oxford University Press .

Other Leon Garfield books published by Oxford University Press: Devil-in-the-Fog, Black Jack, and Mr Corbett's Ghost.