The local landowner Van Cheele experiences an unnerving encounter with a youth sunning himself near a pond, and starts to wonder if there is any connection between this wild-looking boy and the recent disappearances of poultry, hares, lambs and, more alarmingly, an infant child in the area. To his astonishment, he discovers the next day that his aunt has decided to take the boy in, buying him a suit of clothes and naming him Gabriel-Ernest. Van Cheele remains suspicious, especially when it is revealed that there is something supernatural about their new ward...

 

There are 128 pages in this book. This book was published 2015 by Alma Books Ltd .

QUENTIN BLAKE is Britain's leading illustrator, and was chosen as the first Children's Laureate. Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916) wrote under the pen name Saki and is best known for his strange, mischievous and witty short stories.

This book has the following chapters: Contains: The Open Window, The Boar-Pig, The Chaplet, The Lumber Room, The Shartz-Metterklume Method, Gabriel-Ernest, Sredni Vashtar, The Storyteller, The She-Wolf