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    The Ghost of Custard Castle
    The Ghost of Custard Castle
    The Ghost of Custard Castle
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    The Ghost of Custard Castle

    By Emma Laybourn

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    Six stories about Custard Castle, which has three hundred dusty rooms, a King,a Queen, a wizard - and a ghost!

    The ghost has always lived in Wizard Watchit's tower. But now the Wizard isn't scared of it any more, so it needs to find someone else who is...

    Full of gentle excitement and humour, this collection of stories is ideal for younger children or for reading aloud. Shiver at The Headless Knight, shudder at The Skeleton in the Cupboard and giggle at A Visit from Count Scapula!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEmma Laybourn
    Release dateNov 6, 2012
    ISBN9781301988853
    The Ghost of Custard Castle
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    Emma Laybourn

    I'm a qualified teacher and librarian who has had seven children's books published in traditional form in the UK and USA. I've also had about sixty short stories published in British and Australian magazines.In 2012 I set up a child-friendly website, www.megamousebooks.com, to offer free children's stories, ebooks and printable puzzles. Five years later I created my second site, www.englishliteratureebooks.com, as a home for free abridged classic novels and classic poetry ebook collections. Keeping both sites going is proving a full-time job, but a very enjoyable one!

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    The Ghost of Custard Castle - Emma Laybourn

    The Ghost of Custard Castle

    Six Stories about Custard Castle

    Emma Laybourn

    Smashwords Edition

    Copyright 2012 Emma Laybourn

    Emma Laybourn’s website is at

    Megamousebooks.com.

    Happy Reading!

    Table of Contents

    Introduction

    The Ghost in the Tower

    The Wrong Spell

    The Skeleton in the Cupboard

    The Lost Room

    The Headless Knight

    A Visit from Count Scapula

    Introduction

    Custard Castle had three hundred dusty rooms, and seven people.

    There was the King, the Queen, and Princess Fifi.

    There was Bella the maid, Jack the servant boy, and the Cook.

    There was Wizard Watchit, who lived in the tallest tower.

    And there was the ghost...

    The Ghost in the Tower

    Up in the tallest tower of Custard Castle, Wizard Watchit was getting hot and cross.

    His spells weren’t going right. It made him angry.

    Bother! he grumbled, turning the pages of his spell book. He didn’t see the white ghostly shape creeping up behind him.

    Woo! wailed the ghostly shape in his ear. The wizard jumped, and dropped his book in the cauldron.

    Look what you made me do! he shouted.

    Woo?

    Yes, you! Go away, ghost! I’m busy.

    Woo woo?

    Leave me alone! snapped Wizard Watchit. He fished the spell book out of the cauldron. It was covered in spiders.

    The ghost waited for a moment, and then began to rattle its chains. Clinkety bong, clinkety bong...

    Stop it! snapped Wizard Watchit. I said I’m busy. Anyway, you don’t scare me any more.

    Woo woo woo?

    No! You don’t scare me one little bit! Now go away.

    Woo?

    "I said go away!"

    Woo… Slowly the ghost floated towards the door. It looked back at Wizard Watchit angrily flicking spiders off his spell book.

    Woo woo, murmured the ghost sadly, as it drifted through the door and left the wizard’s tower behind.

    The ghost felt very upset. It had always lived in the Wizard’s tower. It liked Wizard Watchit. It liked creeping up behind him and going Woo! so that the Wizard jumped.

    And Wizard Watchit had always liked being scared by the ghost – until today. Now he wasn’t scared any more. He didn’t want the ghost around.

    Woo-hoo, moaned the ghost unhappily.

    A ghost was meant to be scary. That was its job.

    So if Wizard Watchit wasn’t frightened of it any more, it would have to find somebody else to scare...

    * * *

    The ghost had never left the tower before. Now it set out to explore the three hundred dusty rooms of Custard Castle.

    It drifted through walls and oozed under doors, looking for people to frighten. Apart from the Wizard, there were only six people living in the castle. So it took a long time for the ghost to find anyone at all.

    It had almost given up hope when it drifted into the counting-house.

    The King was in there, counting out his money, while Jack the

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