The British National Bibliography
... Montgomery AT THE RIVER - GATES AND OTHER SUPERNATURAL STORIES · Philippa Pearce CLASSIC GHOST STORIES CLASSIC ... Roger Lancelyn Green THE GREAT MOUSE PLOT AND OTHER TALES OF CHILDHOOD • Roald Dahl THE GREAT TIME WARP ADVENTURE ...
Robin Hood and His Merry Men
His bones may be whitening still, for all I know, in the pool of the river where I left him. ... you cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.
A staircase of large blocks with a rise of at least a foot leads up to the main gate, and opposite this on the side towards the river is another smaller postern through which down a rather hazardously steep slope a scrambling path, ...
A collection of stories, both haunting and mysterious, created from everyday life and ordinary things. The author also wrote Tom's Midnight Garden, The Way to Sattin Shore and What the Neighbours Did and Other Stories.
Haunting Memories: Death, Mourning, and Memory in the Ghost Stories of Margaret Oliphant. In The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story, ed. Scott Brewster and Luke Thurston, 106–115. New York and London: Routledge.
The old beast is up to something out of character here. Gabriel appears autistic because he hears a voice. The voice is real, but it is a supernatural presence. This voice gives him a power that he can transfer by touch.
Children's Catalog
Only the sound of the dark waters of the river broke the night air and he quickly continued on his way. ... As he continued to look he noticed that the crossing gates were open and what seemed to be an old steam train appeared.