Six for Hallowe’En

Six for Hallowe’en

Six for Hallowe’en is a collection of six humorous tales of ghostly goings on and horror that are ideal for reading out loud at Hallowe’en, and consists of the following stories:

A Challenging Game of Crumble

All Hallows Eve. Beltane. Halloween. Trick or treat night. Call it what you will, in the spookiest, most neglected and less visited places of the world night draws in and the veil between this world and the next draws back. On this night the ghosts of the next world pass through the veil to visit the living. Monsters, witches and worse travel the land, and all must stay away, safe indoors from the horror of the cold moon swept night outside. This story isn't about any of that at all. Well. Not really. It does have a ghost, sure - and a witch and vampire. Okay a skeleton too. Oh, and mister Crisp who is - well, burnt a bit. Yet this year will be the most challenging game of "Crumble" ever. Because this year they will have a visitor, and Oli - sorry, Dave the cat is not pleased at all, because it looks like his seat has been taken, and Old Mother Alice is about to have more than her leg pulled...

The Ghost Next Door

Everyone in Liverpool has a ghost story to tell. Everyone seems to have a favourite one, and sometimes they grow in the telling. It would be fair to say that most of them are complete nonsense, but then you never know. You just never know. That's the hook. To two friends and an assorted motley crew of assorted characters it seems like the perfect opportunity to get them off the dole and set up in the ghost tour business. But what if the ghosts were real?

The Cat is Back!

"The cat is back. I could not believe it but it really is. Instinct, I suppose. Yet I was still surprised. I suppose that it is best to say right here and now before I tell you all about what happened that I could never be described as any kind of animal lover. Some people are, some fawn on their pets, but not me.

Dad Comes to Visit

When “Dad comes to visit” Gwen and Dai are less than happy to see him, and things get a lot worse when he decides to start up a card school. Gwen finds it equally difficult to bring dad up to speed with the last six years of Emmerdale and Coronation Street, and with good reason, because six years is exactly how long dad has been dead for...

An Unremarkable Man

Ron was as straight as a die - old fashioned perhaps; some would say old school. But the heart of the matter, and if he were here with us now other than just in spirit, I think he would agree, is the fact that he was to all who knew him an unremarkable man. He never saw a ghost, found treasure buried in the darker wind swept places of the world, nor did he ever own a cat that talked, nor indeed did he have anything remarkable about him at all. But is Ron really that - or is he someone - or something - much more remarkable altogether? "An Unremarkable Man" is a story concerning the big questions about life, death and all the bits in between. Oh, and talking cats.

A Bad Case of Sigbins

When Wallace Barrington, Consulting Horticulturist, is called in to offer his advice on a strange case of disappearing pumpkins, the lady of the manor, Lady Spiers-Faulkner seems to think that the solution is all but immediate. Wallace however knows better, for the case will challenge even his vast consultative horticultural knowledge to the limit, for Sigbins are notoriously difficult to get rid of, if indeed they can be got rid of at all!