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This title features nine stories of spine-tingling suspense. It contains fictional frighteners such as Dr Faustus , The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Sherlock Holmes famous encounter with the Hound of the Baskervilles . It includes: terrifying true stories, including the cursed Aborigine Kinjika and the body-snatchers Burke and Hare. Dramatic illustrations by Graham Howells and David Leith bring these ghastly characters vividly to life – but your own imagination will add horrors of its own! It is exciting reading for (brave) 8- to 12-year-olds. The fearful fictional figures of the blood-sucking vampire Count Dracula, Victor Frankenstein s living-dead creation, and the evil magic of an Egyptian mummy s tomb are frightening enough…but the true stories that join them in this chilling collection are no less gruesome. Here you will meet unscrupulous dealers in human remains, a murderous barber whose victims were devoured by their unknowing fellow citizens, and a curse that clawed its victims to the grave across thousands of years. Read these tales of terror – if you dare!