by Leon Garfield · OUP Oxford · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780192750341
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«Mr Corbett's Ghost» is a collection of young adult horror stories by Leon Garfield, published by OUP Oxford in paperback (144 pages, in English).
The main story follows Benjamin, a young apprentice who on New Year's Eve accepts the offer of a mysterious old man to rid himself of his cruel employer, Mr Corbett. After Corbett's sudden death, his ghost returns to haunt the boy. The volume is completed with two other short stories of the same chilling tone.
The work originally appeared in 1969 and this OUP Oxford edition came out in 2000; some catalogs list it as «Mr Corbett's Ghost and Other Stories».
Suitable for young readers aged 9 and up who enjoy scary stories and ghosts.
Leon Garfield FRSL was a British author. He is best known for children's historical novels, though he also wrote for adults. He wrote more than thirty books and scripted Shakespeare: The Animated Tales for television. His retellings of Shakespeare for young readers were published as Shakespeare Stories. He wrote an ending for The Mystery of Edwin Drood, left unfinished at the death of Charles Dickens. Garfield won the inaugural Guardian Prize for Devil-in-the-Fog and the Carnegie Medal for The God Beneath the Sea, a retelling of Greek mythology cowritten with Edward Blishen..
