Featuring stories from a host of top children's authors and illustrators including Tony Ross, Dyan Sheldon and Nicholas Allan, this creepy compendium is packed with ghosts, witches, monsters and bogeymen - all the ingredients needed for a tremulous tale at bedtime, or any time! Brand new illustrations from Nicholas Allan accompany a ghostly tale from Hilltop Hospital, the exuberant witch who got on at Paddington station brightens the lives of a host of commuters and a resourceful little boy catches the elusive Bogeyman. These wonderfully creepy stories will thrill and delight the youngest of readers, without scaring them out of their wits! Stories to be featured are: A WITCH GOT ON AT PADDINGTON STATION by Dyan Sheldon and Wendy Smith; MARMADUKE AND THE SCARY STORY by Michael Ratnett and June Goulding; THE LITTLE SCOTTISH GHOST by Franz Hohler and Werner Maurer; THE DREAMBEAST by John Richardson; The GHOST OF HILLTOP HOSPITAL by Nicholas Allan; TITCHYWITCH by Jean Baylis; CAPTAIN DING: THE DOUBLE DECKER PIRATE by David Cox and Graham Round; PETER AND THE BOGEYMAN by Michael Ratnett and June Goulding; THE MAGIC LAVATORY by Nicholas Allan and THE SHOP OF GHOSTS by Tony Ross.