`Ghostly Haunts provides a rich and substantial collection of good, classy, classic ghost tales.' TES

A haunting collection of original stories, commissioned to celebrate the centenary of the National Trust. Each brilliant ghost story features real places and eerily captures the atmosphere and history surrounding them.

Michael Morpurgo commissioned ten contemporary children's authors to produce this brilliant variety of stories: Joan Aiken, Alick Rowe, John Quinn, Ted Hughes, Jamila Gavin, Anne Merrick, Berlie Doherty, Dick King-Smith, Terence Blacker and Michael Morpurgo.

There are 222 pages in this book. This is a short story book. This book was published 1995 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Caroline Pitcher's story Kevin the Blue won the Independent Story of the Year Award in 1993. Caroline's first book for Frances Lincoln was The Snow Whale with Jackie Morris, chosen as one of Child Education's Best Books of 1996 and shortlisted for the 1997 Children's Book Award. Nilesh Mistry was born in Bombay. He came to Britain in 1975 and studied illustration at Harrow School of Art and Central St Martin's School of Art. He lives in Harrow. Michael Morpurgo has brought together poems by writers as diverse as Spike Milligan and Stevie Smith, John Lennon and Jo Shapcott.