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Owing to the continuing popularity of this collection of ghost stories, it is now being published in two mass-market format paperbacks, with new covers, new introductions, and new chapterhead artwork. In this first volume there are stories by Jan Mark, Adele Geras, Robert Westhall, RuskinBond, and many others.
This collection of stories all havea terrible shock waiting for you, so watch out for the ending -it's nasty!
Faces in the night, evil statuettes, ghostly cemeteries, and talking heads. Don't look over your shoulder . . . This collection of stories all have a big surprise in store, so watch out for the ending - it's nasty! * Extracted from The Young Oxford Book of Nasty Endings, one of the best-selling books in the 'Young Oxford Books' series. * Completely unique anthology of unsettling, clever, and slightly unnerving stories. * Mix of the best of contemporary and established writers, with some newly commissioned stories. * Authors include E, Nesbit, T.H. White, Ruskin Bond, and Alison Prince.
A collection of folk tales and myths, fiction and fables about all kinds of animals.
A collection of stories about aliens, from a star beast to the underdweller, from an intergalactic agent to an invader in a dark car, and not forgetting the Martian who falls in love with an Earth girl. Suggested level: intermediate, junior secondary.
A collection of more than 25 funny stories, ideal for reading alone or aloud, issued in paperback. Includes folk-tales, anecdotes and narrative jokes as well as new and favourite stories by many top children's authors. Illustrated throughout in full colour. Authors include Jan Mark, Bel Mooney, Richmal Crompton and Ian Whybrow. Artists include Vince Reid, Jamie Smith and Anni Axworthy Dennis Pepper is the editor of many anthologies for OUP
This collection brings together a wide range of stories about aliens and encounters with aliens. Some are hostile invaders of Earth, others friendly and more generous visitors - though not all of them are as friendly as they would like us to believe.
This is a collection of stories in which nightmares and bad dreams are an essential part of the plot. In some stories the nightmare parallels or predicts events in waking life. In others, the nightmare takes over and the dreamer cannot get back to reality. There are also other stories which have a nightmarish quality to them. The characters are trapped and unable to make an escape.