Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Product Description Classic Will Hay comedy The outbreak of the Second World War results in the boys& school of St Michaels relocating to Dubain Castle on the Isle of Skye The new schoolmaster (Hay) scoffs at the legends of a ghostly piper which haunts the castle until two headmasters come to a grisly end Who will become the next victim of the phantom piper? Synopsis St Michael&s school is evacuated to Dunbain Castle on the Isle of Skye & the master (Will Hay) soon discovers that the place is haunted by the ghost of Mad Mc Kinnon ...

The classic ghost story from Penelope Lively one of the modern greats of British fiction for adults & children alike 256 pages Lively Penelope ...

1918 the closing months of the war Army psychiatrist William Rivers is increasingly concerned for the men who have been in his care
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Selected & Introduced by David Stuart Davies Traumatised by ghost stories in her youth Pulitzer Prize winning author Edith Wharton (1862 -1937) channelled her fear & obsession into creating a series of spine-tingling tales filled with spirits beyond the grave & other supernatural phenomena While claiming not to believe in ghosts paradoxically she did confess that she was frightened of them Wharton imbues this potent irrational & imaginative fear into her ghostly fiction to great effect In this unique collection of finely wrought tales Wharton demonstrates her mastery of the ghost story genre Amongst the many supernatural treats within these pages you will encounter a married farmer bewitched by a dead girl; a ghostly bell which saves a woman's reputation; the weird spectral eyes which terrorise the midnight hours of an elderly aesthete; the haunted man who receives letters from his dead wife; & the frightening power of a doppelganger which foreshadows a terrible tragedy Compelling rich & strange the ghost stories of Edith Wharton like vintage wine have matured & grown more potent with the passing years ...

Dot & Ryan's sneaky Halloween visit to a condemned tower leads to an exciting discovery but can curiosity save the bat in this quirky adventure story from Gillian Cross Particularly suitable for struggling reluctant or dyslexic readers aged 8 72 pages 11 Illustrations black & white Cross Gillian ...

On a cool evening on the swamp a figure appears dancing across the water A human figure but far from a human form A Ghost a young girl spirit that seems to have lost its way A good Samaritan owl decides to help against the wishes of his animal brethren What mysteries does the ghost girl hold the secrets to & what will happen when she & the owl unlock them together? Will they find out what happened to her? Will she find her way to where she needs to be? What will happen to the animals in the swamp & surrounding forest? An adventure with the most unlikely of pairs The Ghost the Owl ...

From John Flanagan author of the worldwide bestselling Ranger's Apprentice comes a br&-new chapter in the adventures of young Skandians who form a different kind of family
- a brotherband When the Brotherband crew are caught in a massive storm at sea they're blown far off course & wash up on the shores of a land so far west that Hal can't recognize it from any of his maps Eerily the locals are nowhere in sight yet the Herons have a creeping feeling they are being watched Suddenly the silence is broken when a massive marauding bear appears advancing on two children The crew springs into action & rescues the children from the bear's clutches which earns them the gratitude & friendship of the local Mawagansett tribe who finally reveal themselves But the peace is short-lived The Ghostfaces a ruthless warlike tribe who shave their heads & paint their faces white are on the warpath once more It's been ten years since they raided the Mawagansett village but they're coming back to pillage & reap destruction As the enemy approaches the Herons gear up to help their new friends repel an invasion In this sixth book in the action-packed Brotherband Chronicles the Herons find themselves in unfamiliar lands & prepare for battle with a ruthless unknown enemy
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play When a group of friends discover a 15th century coffin that allows them to experience the world as ghosts their adventures soon bring out their most dangerous impulses & desires ...

Jack Taylor is recovering from a mistaken medical diagnosis & a failed suicide attempt In need of money & with former cop on his resume Jack has been hired as a night-shift security guard But his Ukrainian boss has Jack in mind for some off-the-books work He wants Jack to find what some claim to be the first true book of heresy The Red Book currently in the hands of a rogue priest who is hiding out in Galway after fleeing a position at the Vatican Despite Jack's distaste for priests of any stripe the money is too good to turn down Em the many-faced woman who has had a vice on Jack's heart & mind for the past two years reappears & turns out to be entangled with the story of The Red Book too leading Jack down ever more mysterious & lethal pathways It seems all sides are angling for a piece of Jack Taylor but his is a man increasingly plagued by ghosts
- by the disposable & disposed of in a city filled with as much darkness as the deepest corners of Jack's own mind
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Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2016 this mesmerising & mysterious novel by Printz Award-winning author Marcus Sedgwick is written in four cleverly interlinked parts & can be read in 24 different ways Spanning thousands of years The Ghosts of Heaven can tell us a secret as old as time about survival discovery & the effect of the spiral
- a symbol that has no end
- on all our lives It's there when a girl walks through the forest the moist green air clinging to her skin There centuries later in a pleasant green dale hiding the treacherous waters of Golden Beck that take Anna who they call a witch There on the other side of the world where a mad poet watches the waves & knows the horrors they hide & far into the future as Keir Bowman realises his destiny Each takes their next step in life None will ever go back to the same place The spiral has existed as long as time has existed Follow the ways of infinity to discover its meaning

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