Antique Dust- Ghost Stories

232 Pages·2016·27.85 MB·English

by  Westall Robert

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'Dealers are undertakers ofa sort. When a man dies,
the undertaker conies for the hody and the dealer
...
conies for the rest. I deal in dead men's clocks, pipes
and swords. Passing?through my hands, they give off
joy, loneliness, rear... Ihaveknownmoreevilinaset
or false teeth than in any so-called haunted house
inEngland.
SospeaksGeoffAshden,one-timehomherpilot,now
demobbed.Marriedintothegentryhutstillawoman-
izer. Trying to make a fairly honest living in the
antiques game. Findingghosts.
Theadjutant'sashtrayinthelong-ahandonedhomher
hase. The pious girl who hought spectacles in Wool-
worth's and saw too clearly. The little-hoy-lost call
that the police refused to deal with. The Jag that
crashedinto the motorwayflyovergoingfullout, for
noreason.TheUglyHouseofCunningBurridge.The
female hody moving in the empty antique hed. The
church full of graffiti scrawled in decomposing
humanflesh. WhydotheyallcomeAshden'sway?
Rohert Westall s first novel The Macnine-gunne
hecame a children's classic overnight. Since then he
has heen writing ghost stories to chill the hlood m
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PublishedbythePenguinGroup
27WrightsLane,Londonw85tz,England
VikingPenguinInc.,40West23rdStreet,NewYork,NewYork 10010,USA
PenguinBooksAustraliaLtd,Ringwood,Victoria Australia
PenguinBooksGanadaLtd,2801JohnStreet, Markham,Ontario,Canadal3r
PenguinBooks(NZ) Ltd, 182-190WairauRoad,Auckland 10,NewZealand
PenguinBooksLtd,RegisteredOffices: Harmondsworth,Middlesex,England
Firstpublished 1989
1098765432
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Copyright RobertWestall, 1989
Allrightsreserved.Withoutlimitingtherightsundercopyrightreserved
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thecopyrightownerandtheabovepublisherofthisbook
FilmsetinMonophotoBaskerville
PrintedinGreatBritainbyRichardClayLtd,Bungay,Suffolk
ACIPcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary
LibraryofCongressCatalogCardNumber:88-51906
ISBN0-670-81201-3
To M. R.James,
most economical ofwriters,
who could coax horror
out ofa ragged blanket
ontents
The Devil and Clocky Watson 1
The Doll 44
The Last Day ofMiss Dorinda Molyneaux 78
The Dumbledore 108
The Woolworth Spectacles 128
Portland Bill 148
The Ugly House 170