Tales of Terror from the Black Ship

Tales of Terror from the Black Ship
ISBN-10
1408871114
ISBN-13
9781408871119
Pages
272
Language
English
Published
2016-10-01
Publisher
Bloomsbury Childrens
Author
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Description

One stormy night, in their family's otherwise deserted Cornwall inn, twelve-year-old Ethan and his sister Cathy shelter a mysterious guest who indulges their love of the macabre by telling horror stories of the sea.

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