Best Selling Books by Robert Westall

After Yaxley disappears, the inhabitants of an English village fear that his ugly old cat will uncover the truth about a secret they are hiding.

“I dreamt I was standing in the dark, looking up at the south-west tower . . . And our Kev was up there on top, in the dark, and screaming as if some wild beast was eating him.” When steeplejack Joe Clarke is hired to repair the stonework at Muncaster Cathedral, he is unprepared for the horror he will encounter. Something unspeakably evil in the medieval tower is seeking victims among the young neighborhood boys ... and Joe’s son may be next! An unsettling story with a horrifying conclusion, this eerie tale will chill young and old readers alike. Robert Westall (1929-1993) is one of the best modern writers of ghost stories in the tradition of the great M.R. James, and The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral, which won the Dracula Society’s Children of the Night Award, is one of his finest. This volume also includes a second ghostly tale, ‘Brangwyn Gardens’, published here for the first time in the United States, and a new introduction by Orrin Grey.

A collection of ten of the author''s previously published ghostly tales, including "Rachel and the Angel" and "The Creatures in the House", and the previously unpublished "Graveyard Shift".

Three supernatural novellas by Robert Westall, hailed as the finest British author of ghost stories since M.R. James, collected together for the first time BLACKHAM’S WIMPEY Why should three successive crews flying a Second World War bomber – Blackham’s Wimpey – be driven to madness, despair, even death, though the plane returns from each mission without a scratch? ‘A writer of disturbing brilliance’ – Times Educational Supplement THE WHEATSTONE POND Too many deaths, too many suicides. It was more than coincidence. The Wheatstone Pond was a killer. When it’s drained, antique dealer Jeff Morgan gets interested, hoping there’ll be a few valuable wrecks of model boats down there. He isn’t prepared for the horror he will

Two creatures from outer space join up with two cats to explore animal rights and environmental issues in this sardonic fable.

Guaradian award winning novel about courage, friendship and war. Reissued into the Essential Modern Classic list.

Ritorna uno dei romanzi più importanti della letteratura per ragazzi.

Esta una novela basada en un muchacho que se preocvupa de verdad por lo que le sucede a sus semejantes. Talvez tenga una sensibilidad por una extraña percepción física. Sus padres y su hermano mayor se han acostumbrado poco a poco a sus obseciones. Pero cuando estalla la guerra del Golfo les sorprende con un extraño comportamiento que informa por completo sus vidas. Es una novela que cambia la intriga y la acción con una profunda reflexión sobre lo absurdo de la guerra.

This volume brings together two stories on a Christmas theme, both set in Tyneside in the 1930s. In The Christmas Ghost, a boy receives a desperate warning from a ghost. In The Christmas Cat, a visit to a vicarage is miserable, until the arrival of an apple-pie thief and a cat.

A collection of five short stories examining the lingering repercussions of war on the lives of young people.

Twenty-two ghost stories, ranging from the gentle beauty of The Piper at the Gates of Dawn to the chilling horror of Thornley Abbey, make this a treat for all fans and the perfect introduction for anyone coming to this genre for the first time. It includes stories by masters of suspense such as Charles Dickens, John Gordon and Ray Bradbury, and takes the widest possible view of the supernatural. Each tale - whether funny, ironic or just plain scary - is a classic of its kind

A collection of seven short stories of fantasy set in England.

In medieval France, huge, powerful cats and a magic dagger help Cam, a young English jack-of-all-trades, through a series of unusual and dangerous adventures.

Dealers are undertakers of a sort. When a man dies, the undertaker comes for the body, and the dealer comes for the rest. I deal in dead men''s clocks, pipes and swords. Passing through my hands, they give off joy, loneliness, fear ... I have known more evil in a set of false teeth than in any so-called haunted house in England.''? So speaks Geoff Ashden, a regular guy trying to make an honest living as an antique dealer, but who has an uncanny knack for finding cursed objects and haunted places: a sinister Georgian clock carved with obscene and Satanic designs, a hideous doll with deadly powers, a pair of old spectacles that let their wearer see a little too clearly, an ugly house with a terrifying secret, a church full of graffiti scrawled in decomposing human flesh. In this collection, award-winning children''s author Robert Westall delivers a set of chilling tales for adults and proves himself, as Orrin Grey writes in the new introduction to this edition, ''an obvious successor to that godfather of the English ghost story, M.R. James?.''

Miss Crimond was sitting in Dad''s chair and Billy hated her. To Billy, and all the families who rented her houses in Back Tennyson Street, Miss Crimond was the arch enemy. Billy and his gang declare war on her, but his campaign has unexpected consequences when he sees the night mare, the horse of his dreams. Junior high readers.

A book of short stories for teenagers that perfectly conveys all the anguish, horror and humour of falling in love. Not a "he-said-she-said" book, but a gut-wrenchingly realistic portrayal of the whole gamut of feelings, including disappointments and triumphs.

The author of Blitzcat presents a collection of five scary stories of things that go bump in the night.