Most Popular Books by Robert Westall

A chilling collection of horror stories.

''Ninety-eight keys, none of them labelled. Ninety-eight keys, and they say there are ninety-nine rooms . . . What will you find in the ninety-ninth room, I wonder?'' Maggi is delighted when her father takes a new job, renovating a crumbling stately home in Cheshire. It''s a chance to escape from the North-East, from the predatory Doris Streeton, and perhaps from the grief at the heart of Maggi''s family. But Maggi gradually comes to realize that their new home holds secrets far more sinister than anything they have left behind . . .

Tales of psychological suspense and the possible supernatural.

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

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.

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

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.

While seeking shelter from a sudden rainstorm in an old barn, a young motorcyclist finds himself catapulted into a mid-17th century England troubled by witch hunts.

In the highly organized society of twenty-first-century Britain the system is not to be questioned, but Kitson, a young computer wizard, and his partner Keri are determined to find answers to some important questions.

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?.''

Soon after steeplejack Joe Clarke begins work on one of the spires of Muncaster''s medieval cathedral, terrible things start to happen and Joe realizes that there is a malevolent force connected to the spire''s gargoyle.

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.

When a shepherd opens an alien coffin he finds on a hillside, he unwittingly brings to Earth alien combatants, and has to work with the cat-like Fefethil to defeat the evil Wawaka, but not before lives are lost or changed forever.

A collection of eight supernatural tales, exciting and witty, that will send shivers down your spine and make your skin crawl.