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Dark at the Foot of the Stairs by Eileen Moore
Published by Hodder &Stoughton

 

Dark at the Foot of the Stairs
by Eileen Moore

Tommy Cotton's Grandma has a terrible fright when she discovers a massive spider in the house.   At first Tommy doesn't believe it's as big as she says it is until weird things happen around the house - like the disappearing huge heap of black wool piled on top of the kitchen table ... but was it wool or a massive creepy spider?!   A great creepy story as long as you're not scared of spiders!

 


Published by OUP

Short and Spooky!
by Louise Cooper

This is a collection of very short but gruesome stories for older readers. All the stories have a clever twist at the end. Running throughout the book is a set of poems, all with a ‘sticky ending’ – which you won’t want to read . . . !

 

The haunted windmill by Margaret Nash
Published by Eprint

The Haunted Windmill by Margaret Nash

Jade and her class are on a school trip to an old windmill, which is said to be haunted. Nobody believes her when she says that she has seen the ghost so she has to convince her friend Daz that the windmill is haunted. But, is the ghost trying to warn Jade and Daz of danger?

 

Six haunted hairdos by Gregory Maguire
Published by O'Brien Press

 

Six Haunted Hairdos
by Gregory Maguire

Ghost have appeared in the village of Hamlet, but are they all real? What are the Tattletale girls up to and, can their rival Copycat boys solve the mystery of the six scary creatures with bizarre hairdos and, what do the ghostly woolly mammoths that roam the hill above their school want ? Brilliantly, funny story!

 

 

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