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A foot in the grave

A collection of ghost stories for older readers that will linger in the mind long after you've closed this book. Here are tales of ghostly revenge, tales to scare and amuse, peopled with malevolent spirits and mysterious heroes.

Audience
childrens
Length
short · 128 pages

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