A Creepy Company by Joan Aiken

A Creepy Company by Joan Aiken

This is a collection of creepy stories of the supernatural to follow the success of "A Bundle of Nerves" and "A Fit of Shivers". In one story, a girl in her first job is shown infinity among the files when her boyfriend betrays her while in another an old man is overcome by migrating toads.

Joan Delano Aiken (1924-2004) was the daughter of the American poet, Conrad Aiken. Joan had a variety of jobs, including working for the BBC, the United Nations Information Centre and then as features editor for a short story magazine. Her first children's novel, The Kingdom of the Cave, was published in 1960. Joan Aiken wrote over a hundred books for young readers and adults and is recognized as one of the classic authors of the twentieth century. Her best-known books are those in the James III saga, of which The Wolves of Willoughby Chase was the first title, published in l962 and awarded the Lewis Carroll prize. Both that and Black Hearts in Battersea have been filmed. Her books are internationally acclaimed and she received the Edgar Allan Poe Award in the United States as well as the Guardian Award for Fiction in this country for The Whispering Mountain. In 1999 Joan Aiken was awarded an MBE for her services to children's books.

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ISBN 13	9780140367898
ISBN 10	0140367896
Title	A Creepy Company
Author	Joan Aiken
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Random House Children's UK
Year published	1995-03-30
Number of pages	160
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