《level 3 - The Locked Room - Penguin Readers》.pdf

Contents pag e Introduction V Chapter 1 The Ash-Tree 1 Chapter 2 A School Story 8 Chapter 3 The Curtain s 13 Chapter 4 The Flies 18 Chapter 5 The Locked Room 22 Chapter 6 The Painting of—ngley Hall 28 Chapter 7 Lost Hearts 34 Chapter 8 Martins Lake 42 Chapter 9 The Two Cousins 4 6 Activities 55 Introduction He jumped and screamed and, as he did, the face of (he thing came up towards him: no eyes, no nose, no mouth. He screamed again and rushed to the door. He felt the thing touch his back and start to tear at his shirt... fixings ... things in the night , things in the house, screaming, running , staring . . . In these stories there are things that are worse than your worst dreams . Giant black spiders living in a tree . Th e terrible ghost that waits outside a window . Empty clothes that walk. Th e strange thin woman wh o moves through a mans picture . Th e boy with the long , dirty fingernails - and a hole in his chest. Th e woman wh o screams from the bottom of a lake. And the dry dusty old man wh o reads - but has no eyes ! Here are nine stories like no others you have read. Montague Rhode s James