Ghosts on Board (10 page)
Authors: Fleur Hitchcock
It took six months for the theme park to be built. It was open just in time for Easter, and people flocked onto the ferries to visit the new, deeply terrifying Nightmare Island. The effects were universally acknowledged to be very special. No one could explain the howling that took place whenever anyone crossed the bridges, or the disembodied voices they heard, or the way things moved unexpectedly, or the extreme cold in the Tunnel of Ghastly Delights.
But although the dark, creaking castle was always terrifying, the tea shop was often cosy, the gardens bursting with beautiful flowers, the children's crèche warm and jolly and full of happy chatter. The island thrilled because it wasn't predictably ghostly â no one knew what to expect from
one day to the next.
But the thing that made the visitors gasp above all else was the strange laughing girl's face that would appear suddenly in the hall of mirrors â one day there, the next, gone.
And at night, every night, the ghastly green glow of a television screen shone from a window high in the castle, accompanied by cackling laughter and electronic pings and whizzes. A voice would call, âYes! Yes! Yes! I've levelled up! I am the supreme master.' And sometimes it would shout, âNo one alive or dead can beat me â I am invincible!'
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First published in Great Britain in 2015 by Hot Key Books
Northburgh House, 10 Northburgh Street, London EC1V 0AT
Text copyright © Fleur Hitchcock 2015
Cover illustration copyright © Ross Collins 2015
The moral rights of the author and illustrator have been asserted.
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All characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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ISBN: 978-1-4714-0347-7
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