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 Dust 'n' Bones - Chris Mould
Description: ISBN 0340893273 / Author: Chris Mould / Genre: Junior Books / Publisher: Hodder Children's Books / This book of ghost stories will send shivers down your spine! It contains ten tales, five retold classic ghost stories and five original ghost stories by Chris Mould. Illustrated ... more  Dust 'n' Bones - Chris Mould ... throughout in colour and black and white. The contents include: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving, "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe, "Man-Size in Marble" by Edith Nesbit, "The Bagman's Story" by Charles Dickens, "The Phantom Coach" by Amelia B Edwards, And by Chris Mould: "A Bedtime Tale", "The Stranger", "By the Fireside", "Aboard the Armadillo", and "The Very Last Train".Newest Review: ... with its Dickensian cosy good-heartedness, a pirate-treasure thrill of "Aboard the Armadillo" and perhaps the most ... more ... clasically ghostly story of walking effigies by Edith Nesbit "Man-Size in Marble" as well as "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" that has only a pretend ghost and Poe's chiling account of madness "The Tell-Tale Heart". The shortest and to me, undoubtedly the scariest is "The Bedtime Tale", barely two pages of sheer horror.
Altogether, it's a very good selection, and the generously laid-out hardback edition does justice to Mould's rich, confident, dynamic artwork that mixes carto...more |
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Dust 'n' Bones - Chris Mould: Scares and Shivers (318 words)
by MagdaDH - written on 08/03/08 (Very useful, 71 readings)
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Chris Mould is a popular writer of teen and children's spooky fiction and in this re-issued anthology of short stories called "Dust and Bones" he has created a perfect primer for the whole genre. The book contains ten ghost short stories, a mixture of retold classics and Mould's own tales varying in length and in scariness. We have "The Bagman's Story" taken from the Pickwick Papers with its Dickensian cosy good-heartedness, a pirate-treasure thrill of "Aboard the Armadillo" and perhaps the most clasically ghostly story of walking effigies by Edith Nesbit "Man-Size in Marble" as well as "The Legend of Sleepy ...
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