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If there is a barrier that separates the dark unknown from the everyday world around us? If so, is it broken sometimes by the dead returning, by the undead, or by alien creatures? What else could account for the chance meeting (or was it?) between a young student and hitch-hiker who turns out to be so much stranger than she seems? Why else should three successive crews flying a Second World War bomber Blackham's Wimpey - be driven to madness, despair, even to death, though the plane returns from each mission without a scratch? Who are Fred, Alice and Aunty Lou; the figments of Peter's imagination that become a real life nightmare for Roger and Biddy? There is St. Austin Friars, too: a church without a congregation - until a burial service, oddly arranged a month ahead, is attended by a sinister assortment of the living and the dead. And Sergeant Nice, an ordinary policeman in an ordinary seaside town faced with a series of quite extraordinary thefts; the work surely, of no human hand...
Six tales, set in England, in which people engaged in ordinary pursuits attract the attention of supernatural forces.
Literature for life
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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.
"M Books" is a series of contemporary literature for children and teenagers. The books can be used as shared texts or as individual readers and are graded into five age ranges - from 7 to 14 plus - for teacher guidance. In this story Anne goes to stay in a lonely cottage by the sea, next door to the Watch House. She soon discovers that there is someone or something supernatural in the Watch House, and that she has been chosen to give it the help it desperately needs.
Ralph's discovery of the burial site of a creature from another world leads him into a chilling supernatural adventure.
A collection of five short stories examining the lingering repercussions of war on the lives of young people.