Ghosts in Fact and Fiction is not quite as garishly illustrated as Usborne’s All About Ghosts, though Hamlyn would ramp up the intensity for The Hamlyn Book of Horror.

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In this episode Mr Jim Moon continues to explore the eerie and macabre works for younger folks produced by Daniel Farson with a look at a ghostly television serial he co-wrote. I used to try to copy the illustrations into a tatty exercise book that I pretended was my own novel. In this episode, Mr Jim Moon has a flip through a battered but much loved tome in the Great Library of Dreams, a huge favourite with monster-obsessed kids in the 1970s and 1980s - The Hamlyn Book of Horror by Daniel Farson!We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, sell user information, or run ads. Some of the illustrations are surprisingly strong for a youth market book, notably that of Vlad the Impaler locking a horde of peasants in a hut and torching it. In this colourful volume, the kids of the 1980s could learn all about assorted monsters from dinosaurs to the xenomorph! A poor condition book can still make a good reading copy but is generally not collectible unless the item is very scarce.

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The other volumes, which I’ll post about separately, are The Hamlyn Book of Horror (1979), The Hamlyn Book of Mysteries (1983), and The Hamlyn Book of Monsters (1984). Open Library is an initiative of the Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.More Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. We understand that not everyone can donate right now, but if you can afford to contribute, we promise it will be put to good use. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses.