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ANTIQUE \ DUST ghost stories by TWKSTA -'y\^£s*£^r j ' ^24.95 US ANTIQUE $17.95 DUST ^|| 'Dealers are undertakers ofa sort. When a man dies, the undertaker conies for the hody and the dealer ... conies for the rest. I deal in dead men's clocks, pipes and swords. Passing?through my hands, they give off joy, loneliness, rear... Ihaveknownmoreevilinaset or false teeth than in any so-called haunted house inEngland. SospeaksGeoffAshden,one-timehomherpilot,now demobbed.Marriedintothegentryhutstillawoman- izer. Trying to make a fairly honest living in the antiques game. Findingghosts. Theadjutant'sashtrayinthelong-ahandonedhomher hase. The pious girl who hought spectacles in Wool- worth's and saw too clearly. The little-hoy-lost call that the police refused to deal with. The Jag that crashedinto the motorwayflyovergoingfullout, for noreason.TheUglyHouseofCunningBurridge.The female hody moving in the empty antique hed. The church full of graffiti scrawled in decomposing humanflesh. WhydotheyallcomeAshden'sway? Rohert Westall s first novel The Macnine-gunne hecame a children's classic overnight. Since then he has heen writing ghost stories to chill the hlood m 01 young adult readers.AntiqueDust is his first book .>****" foradults. ,'tMe •* »em to tot w* VDU OP, £40. |J$:i#5 net 7oH BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY^ jrntique iJust Ghost Stones ^ROBERT WESTALL VIKING V K NG I I 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 1 © Copyright RobertWestall, 1989 Allrightsreserved.Withoutlimitingtherightsundercopyrightreserved above,nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,stored inorintroducedintoaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyform orbyanymeans(electronic,mechanical,photocopying, recordingorotherwise),withoutthepriorwrittenpermissionofboth 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
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