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Mystifying Sinister Stories of the Unexplained

Helen Cresswell

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Mystifying Sinister Stories of the Unexplained by Helen Cresswell
Extraordinary events and mysterious circumstances fill this eerie collection of nineteen stories. Music takes a boy to a strange place, a scythe compels its users to slash on and on, a jacket is possessed and a beautiful woman turns into a vampire. Other strange and unsettling encounters grip the imagination and quicken the pulse in stories from authors such as Ursula Le Guin, Joan Aiken, Diana Wynne Jones and many others.The stories include: The Green Arches - Joan Aiken; The Azteck Opal - Rodrigues Ottolengui; Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte; The Girl Who Kissed the Peach Tree - Eleanor Farjeon; The Thing in the Pond - Paul Ernst; Smart Ice Cream - Paul Jennings; The Pelican - Ann Pilling; The Adventures of Johnnie Waverley - Agatha Christie; The Tower - Carl Jung; The Scythe - Ray Bradbury; A Sea Above the Sky - Thomas Wright; A Vine on a House - Ambrose Bierce; The Master - Diana Wynne Jones; King Arthur - Sir Thomas Mallory; The Whisperer - Vivien Alcock; Texts - Ursula Le Guin; The Sky Sea - Helen Cresswell; The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; The Bewitched Jacket - Dino Buzzati.

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About The Author

Helen started writing at the tender age of six years old! At that time her primary interest was in poetry. Now she is an author of wonderful stories, such as The Bongleweed and The Piemakers.

Helen has also written many television scripts, including Five Children and It, The Demon Headmaster and Lizzie Dripping.

Wednesday September 28, 2005: Helen Cresswell has died of cancer at her home in Eakring, Nottinghamshire, at the age of 71.

 

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