Spooky Stories 5

by Barbara Ireson (Editor), Daniel Woods (Illustrator )

Boggs the Body Snatcher who practised his evil trade on the fresh young victims long after his remains had mouldered in the grave...

The Pharoah Hound who rose from a mummified corpse to defend the treasures of a long-dead boy-king...

A phantom child who cried for a companion to join him in his eternal play...

These spectral creatures appear in a delicious brew of supernatural tales, written by such masters as Philippa Pearce, Joan Aiken and Agatha Christie to chill the blood as it courses through your unsuspecting veins...

Pamela Ropner - The Pharaoh Hound
Philippa Pearce - Beckoned
Joan Aiken - Smoke from Cromwell's Time
Eve Gothard - Magic on the Field
Agatha Christie - The Lamp
Margaret Biggs - The Ghost of Rainbow Hill

128 pages, Paperback

Published June 1, 1983

About the author

Barbara Ireson grew up on the South Coast, took a degree in Economics at Nottingham, and then worked in Paris at the British Embassy and UNESCO. She married a university lecturer, and his career took her to several university towns, where she become intensely interested in conservation and the restoration of old buildings. Her three children have inherited this enthusiasm, and her two sons run an antiques business at Tours in France. She and her husband also live in Tours, and she is able to lend a hand in the business whilst continuing with her own writing.

She is particularly well known for her work on children's anthologies, both poetry and prose, and she has edited a number of highly praised and popular collections.

1987