Spectral Shadows by Robert Westall

Trade paperback format. Three supernatural novellas by Robert Westall, hailed as the finest British author of ghost stories since M.R. James, collected together for the first timeBLACKHAM’S WIMPEYWhy should three successive crews flying a Second World War bomber – Blackham’s Wimpey – be driven to madness, despair, even death, though the plane returns from each mission without a scratch?‘A writer of disturbing brilliance’ – Times Educational SupplementTHE WHEATSTONE PONDToo many deaths, too many suicides. It was more than coincidence. The Wheatstone Pond was a killer. When it’s drained, antique dealer Jeff Morgan gets interested, hoping there’ll be a few valuable wrecks of model boats down there. He isn’t prepared for the horror he will find instead . . .‘Gutsy and energetic, grippingly plotted’ – GuardianYAXLEY’S CATSepp Yaxley vanished seven years ago, and no one has seen him since. Rose and her children Tim and Jane thought his vacant cottage, alone by the marshes, seemed like the p