Despite their mother's warnings, three brothers go into the forest to play and encounter the witch-woman who eats little children.

    "You're a witch!""Now, now. Don't start using bad names," the old woman said. "We were just getting to be friends.""But you are a witch, aren't you?" Laura persisted.

    . .It's a whole fangtastic creep of monster tips, straight from a Master of horrifying monster movies!

    Filled with no-nonsense sentiment, Mr. McFadden's Halloween concerns an inheritance, a small pony called Haggis, a cantankerous but kindly old man, and an abandoned boy. Rumer Godden writes of a Halloween that will be remembered as vividly by Selina and Muffet as by young readers everywhere.

    Alf, the donkey, takes drastic measures to find out that he is loved as much as the old folks' other animals.

    When on a dare Gillian walks into the abandoned railway tunnel, she has no idea her act will unleash a long-trapped witch and lead to a cosmic clash between the forces of good and evil.

    Two friends experience the frights and delights of Halloween.

    Gobble-uns tales as told by Little Orphant Annie.