Publisher's Synopsis
This is a modern ghost story for children by a bestselling author. The gripping story is set in the haunted house in Penzance where the writer lived for over ten years, one of the most famous haunted houses in Britain...mentioned in Daphne Du Maurier's book Vanishing Cornwall. Daniel and Sally have learned to live with the bizarre happenings in their house: the whirlwind like screams that hurtle around their bedrooms, the sounds of footsteps across the ceiling as the ghost walks in the attic, the things that go missing. Then Victoria, Cassie and David (Disgusting) come to stay and Victoria leads the children up into the attics to search for the ghost. The children get sucked back into the past where the events that have unleashed the ghost are slowly revealed to them. Then Victoria is taken by the ghost and the rest of the children have to find a way of rescuing her. The unnerving Cassie, who has strange powers herself, leads the children into a final battle with the ghost in a bid to rescue her sister.Very funny and often light-hearted the story is still very frightening in places. Many of the scenes were witnessed by the author and his family while they lived there and all the children exist in real life...and every night at nine o clock the ghost still walks to this day!
