The year is 1983. Kevin, a schoolboy addicted to war games, is visited by the ghost of a girl begging for help amid the terror and confusion of a real war. The date: October 1943. When Caroline vanishes into the past once more, Kevin is reluctantly drawn after her and finds himself battling to save thirty lives.
Amy, a lonely little girl, has created a dream companion called Amelia: a dream companion who is fast turning into a nightmare. But Amy has her ally, Elizabeth, to help her exorcise the fearful Amelia. At last, it seems that she might be free, and has found a true friend. But could it be that Amy's imagination is playing tricks on her yet again?
Danny Roberts' Phone-in Show is the most popular on radio, as his callers keep on telling him. One caller, though, is rather less keen - and gives Danny the most frightening experience of his life.
It's exciting to move into Rillington Castle, but the family is now too poor to run it, and a certain Mr. Wilkinson is threatening to take the castle over. All seems lost; but young Clare and the elegant, lively ghost of the ninth Early unexpectedly team up to tackle the problem.
In a gloomy house in a wood, a grandmother sits by a boy's bedside as he eats his supper. With a storm raging outside, she begins a story "Once upon a time there was a dark, dark wood. And in the dark, dark wood there ewas a dark, dark house -" "D'you mean this house?" interrupts the boy, Grandmother laughs. "How could it? its just a story..."
In the year 1800, two boys, Harris and Bostock, decide to frighten the sexton of the local church. Bostock dresses up as a drummer boy, smears himself in phosphorus for an eerie glow, and slaks the graveyard pretending to be the ghost of a foundling boy said to haunt the area. But then Bostock sees the real ghostly boy.
To a deserted cottage come two young people, planning to camp for the night. Peter's hobby is to gather evidence of hauntings, and he hopes to have more luck here than he has hitherto; the outing will be fun, in any case. However, the place is not all it seems... and they are not the only ones present.
