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CHARLES DICKENS enjoyed entertaining his friends with readings of ghost stories, especially at Christmas time. In his classic tale The Signalman, the then high technology world of steam railway comes to contact with what looks like a good old fashioned haunting. A night at a desolate country inn dramatically changes Tom Smart's fortunes in The Bagman's Story. Together with Christmas Ghosts and Mr Testator’s Visitation, these tales are fine examples of Dickens’s spine-chilling talents.

After falling overboard from his longboat, Sigurd the Viking finds himself in modern-day Flotby a small English seaside town. Finding refuge in the aptly named Viking Hotel, Siggy's attempts to embrace modern ways end in disaster. His attempt at romance is no better, as even the course of true love doesn't run smoothly when Siggy's involved... A hilarious story about a Viking who tries to adapt to life in the twentieth century from bestselling author Jeremy Strong.

Darkness falls. The undead rise to feast on the succulent blood of the living. For years vampires have fascinated great writers of the occult such as De Maupassant, Count Stenbock, E Nesbit and EF Benson. This is The Story Circle's collection of some of their spine-chilling tales told by award-winning actors.

Barney loves living on a narrow boat with his owner, Jim, and cruising along the canals and rivers. But he doesn’t like tunnels. They’re too scary. When he gets separated from Jim, Barney has to be very brave and face the longest and most frightening tunnel of all - alone!

Meet Juniper, a girl with no smell prejudice - she even likes sniffing Kit's armpits. Using an E-nose (the latest in smell technology) she duplicates people whose essences were in an old cabinet, among them an evil doctor whose nose keeps falling off.

Delightfully told in original verse, this charming story takes place in the middle of the forest where a tower stands, a tower with neither stairs nor door and at the top of which lives a lovely young woman with flowing hair. When a handsome prince discovers her trapped there, he tries to rescue young Rapunzel, unaware of the witch who put her in the predicament in the first place.

Stand and deliver! Young Tod Golightly is off to find fame and fortune as a highwayman, with help from his four unlikely accomplices: Matilda the wise old donkey, Digby the mastiff, Loudmouth the magpie and a strong-smelling ferret called Evil. A daring robbery makes Tod the terror of the Great West Road, but the Bow Street Runners are hot on his trail...A funny, moving story about a boy and his animal friends, from bestselling author Dick King-Smith.

RESCUE DOG. Barney loves living on a narrow boat with his owner, Jim. But when Jim’s grandson, Freddie, comes to stay, Jim doesn’t seem happy and Barney knows that something’s not right. Jim starts sleepwalking and Barney decides to keep an eye on him, but then disaster strikes...FAIRGROUND SURPRISE. Jim’s grandson, Freddie, is planning to buy a surprise birthday present for Jim at the spring fair.

The date is AD 1650. Dodos are leading idyllic lives on an island in the Indian Ocean, but soon there will be no dodos anywhere at all on earth. Beatrice and Bertie are happily planning their wedding bliss and thinking of all the dodolings they will produce, unaware of the dangers lurking offshore in the anchored ship. The sea monkeys and rats within are dangerous, mean and hungry, and the unsuspecting dodos are in trouble!

Septimouse is a genius. He can do things that other mice cannot do. He can talk to cats, talk to big people, talk to little big people and make them as small as mice. But the one thing he really wants to do is eat some cheese, and how on earth is he going to do that? When little big person Katie’s dad loses his job, Septimouse has a brilliant plan. He shrinks Mum and Dad, and takes them through the mouse hole behind the fridge.

Liam's grandad had found the trousers - and Liam knew they were haunted. They certainly weren't the right things to wear when you were spending the night in a museum full of spooky stuffed animals. But stuffed animals can't do anything, can they?

Martin, a kitten, is branded a 'wimp' by his siblings for his friendly interest in mice. He loves caring for them and can't understand their desire for freedom. Only when he becomes the pet of a big city apartment dweller does he realise why his pets deserted him.

THE SKELINGTON Meet Purple Class Jamal, Ivette, Yasmin, Jodie, Leon, Shea and Zina! The children think their teacher has died when they see a skeleton in his chair is it Mr Wellington’s skelington? THE FLYING SPIDER All havoc breaks loose when Ivette and Zina see a deadly flying spider in the classroom... THE HALF-EATEN SWEATER Mr Wellington’s precious cricket sweater is in the bin, Shea and Jamal do a sponsored silence, Jodie says there’s a werewolf on the class trip and Ivette’s birthday cake gets sat on!

Leon's favourite tree, haunted by the Mad Mangler, a washerwoman who mangles her victims, has been kidnapped by SAS-type men and taken to the home of a rock star. Eventually all ends well as the Mangler is introduced to washing machines.

Sigurd the Viking suddenly finds himself in the 20th century, and he has no idea how to behave. He's causing chaos wherever he goes. Even his new wife can't keep him out of trouble. But then, how would you react if you were a 10th-century Viking stuck in the present day?

We begin with one of Hardy’s best regarded stories, 'The Fiddler of the Reels'. Here Hardy exposes a supernatural and demonic theme, against a realistic and historical background of the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the first trains. A typical Wessex girl is gripped by the power of music and dance when a lone fiddler casts his spell on her, causing her cloying but plain suitor to leave suddenly for London.

Flightless, helpless and often, frankly, more than a little silly, chickens are no match for the cunning, merciless foxes stalking their coop. Or are they? Thanks to a careless farmer and generations of determined foxes, the chickens on Foxearth Farm have evolved into quick-witted, long-legged, high flying fox dodgers. Then, just a week after a vicious fox ambush in the water trough, three sisters are hatched. And Ransome, Sims and Jefferies are no ordinary chicks: they grow up determined to fight back.

Darkness falls. The undead rise to feast on the succulent blood of the living. For years vampires have fascinated great writers of the occult such as De Maupassant, Count Stenbock, E Nesbit and EF Benson. This is The Story Circle's collection of some of their spine-chilling tales told by award-winning actors.

When Sigurd the Viking arrives back in Flotby, not everyone’s pleased to see him - in fact the whole town quickly goes down with a severe attack of Vikingitis! Mr and Mrs Ellis don’t know what to do with him until they hit upon a brilliant idea - perhaps a short spell at school would teach him some twentieth-century manners...

When Ned helps his grandmother clear out her attic, he finds a very unusual Victorian doll – she speaks! Ned and Lady Daisy soon become fast friends, even though he's teased at school for owning a doll. Ned learns to stand up to his father and the school bully in order to protect Lady Daisy. But then the doll is stolen – will Ned ever find her again?