
Chris wrote one of the World Book Day books for 2011 and has been shortlisted for a variety of prestigious children's book awards.Roberts is an award-winning illustrator who has illustrated works by authors such as Julia Donaldson, Jacqueline Wilson, Philip Ardagh and Chris Priestley. His novels are brilliantly original additions to a long tradition of horror stories by authors such as M.R. Biography: Chris Priestley lives in Cambridge with his wife and son.Only when the storm blows itself out can Ethan relax - but not for long, for the new dawn opens the children's eyes to a truth more shocking, more distressing than anything they heard the night before.Ĭan't get enough spooky stories? Crack open the other thrilling titles in the Tales of Terror series: Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror and Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth! Then a visitor comes begging for shelter, and so begins a long night of storytelling, in which young Ethan and Cathy, who have an unnatural appetite for stories of a macabre persuasion, sit out the last throes of the storm in the company of a sailor with more than enough grisly tales to satisfy them.īut something about this sailor puts Ethan on edge, and he becomes increasingly agitated for his father's return.


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