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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 Newest Review: ... with its Dickensian cosy good-heartedness, a pirate-treasure thrill of "Aboard the Armadillo" and perhaps the most ... more |
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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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