Whereas small children will likely find characters' invariably unpleasant fates truly frightening, older readers will likely be less moved, depending on how many horror stories they've encountered before. In this case, my first impression was fairly accurate: the book is a collection of horror stories, albeit none too horrible since the target audience is a younger once.

Would have been better if Harriets father owned the Sawney Bean and she had eaten from there many times.Some of them are very common - what I mean to say is that I have seen similar stories in other anthologies or TV serials. The Sound of Murder – A deaf schoolgirl learns the horrifying truth behind her new French teacher through her malfunctioning hearing aid, and then hears his plans to murder her, too. The intention here, presumably, is to get us to hate Harriet for reasons that become clear at the end of the tale.

A schoolboy is given the computer as a present, and ends up being forced by the local bully to give him the names of the winners.Light Moves – A computer formerly owned by now-deceased horse-racing journalist, Ethan Sly, has the power to give horse racing tips.

When I was like 6 or 7, I used to pop around our local library and borrow the smaller collections of these stories - the thin little books with two or three stories in each volume. Not necessarily dead bodies and dripping blood, but the shadows that lie just outside our vision, the secrets behind closed doors. I found this story rather eerie - well plotted, surprise ending - overall, a good story and probably the scariest in the collection. It becomes a short life lesson of being grateful of what you have and making the best of the situations you find yourself in. I really liked that the bus passengers consisted of ancient and recent undead people each entailing their unique stories.

There are similarities between the central idea in both Killer Camera and Final Destination 3, while Flight 715 may well have inspired Final Destination 1. This tale's only saving grace is that we are stuck in Gary's head for just 11 pages - making it the shortest of the book. The ending is Matthew’s diary entry anxiously detailing him waiting for what terrible fate will befall him.

Because of this, he enlists the help of deranged older kid, Bill, to place the bets for him, splitting the winnings.Join the two together, and you get one of my favourite titles from this book - 'A Career In Computer Games'. It is then revealed that the hitchhiker was actually a gardener for the lunatic asylum, and that his name is Mr. After all, the picture showed the old man smiling so was it a premonition of hope that things would work out eventually?