Haunted
Publisher: Andersen Press
A scintillating selection of supremely scary tales from 11 well-known children’s authors, who each produce a story especially suited to dark nights and unknown noises.
From Susan Cooper to Eleanor Updale, via authors including Joseph Delaney, Robin Jarvis and Mal Peet, readers can be happily horrified by a variety of ghost stories set in the present and the past, and many where one meets the other.
These are quality vignettes, beautifully written, and thought-provoking as well as spine-tingling. In addition many offer resolution to readers uncertain of the future. Peet’s offers a modern and unusually reassuring take on 'Black Shuck', while Jamila Gamin’s extended short story resolves a centuries-old family disruption, and Updale’s narrator is definitely a 21st century cyberghost.
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The days are getting shorter, the nights are getting longer – what better time to curl up with a ghost story? For ages 7-12+.
What you thought...
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#prettylove.GIRL, 23 April 2016
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A very interesting approach to the story and it seems to be the kind of book that would give me thrils and chills
keeshell , 11 September 2015
Very scary I'm going to give it a 3