BR1-05: Stories of Haunted Houses (Punter,2005)

'"Take him away!" yelled Norm.' (p.16).

There three stories in this book.The first story is about the ghost in the dungeon. The bullies of twins let Max alone a night in the dungeon. A knight ghost floated to Max, but the ghost isn't scary. Max tell him that how to be scary. He know that because twins bullies always scar Max and tell them sadly to the ghost. Then, it was time to go out to see twins. But twins didn't believe Max to spend time in dungeon. Just then the scary ghost appeared to twins and they screamed. The knight ghost helped Max in return. Twins promised they'll never bully Max again. And a king ghost appeared in front of the knight ghost, and the king placed on his shoulder as true knight.

The second story is about the hidden treasure. Once upon a night, a highwayman named Pecry hid the treasure in the inn where Small family is running. There were only few customers and Small losing money. Once a time, Mr. Trix told about the treasure and he said he'll find it. Polly, the daughter of Mr.Small  found all around inn. Finally, she found that but the Pecry ghost appeared in front her. Then, Mr.Trix robbed treasure from behind and ran on his car. Pecry called his ghost horse and chased with Polly. Finally the car jumped into the sea and the treasure was lost forever.

But the inn was famous to meet ghosts and there were many customers.

The last story is about ghost ladies. They were boring because there were nothing to do. Once, the TV staffs came to castle and started to film into the castle. They want to be taken, so they dressed up and ready. But TV staffs couldn't find out them and messed room and it made ladies mess, too. They embarrassed and don't want to be taken, but finally staffs found them.

Reference

Punter Russell. (2005). Stories of Haunted Houses.

London, England: Usborne Publishing

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