Twenty-one marvellously inventive stories by Carnegie Medal-winning author Margaret Mahy. Starting with The Horrible Story, about a boy whose chilling tales terrify two older boys, the other...

Monty is allergic to ghosts. If there's an invisible ghost around, he sneezes. As soon as Monty sets foot in the Brinsley Codd School for Sensible Thought, he knows it's haunted. Why else would he...

Eight-year-old Barney is willing to accept that the ghost of his Great-Uncle Cole might wish to be friends with him, but his family are skeptical. However, some of his older relations admit that...