![]() In children's fiction, the size of the scare depends on age. James described as a ''pleasing terror''. To other children, the ghost story contains what the 19th century ghost writer Montague R. ![]() Charles Dickens's membership of the Ghost Club, an eclectic group of ghost enthusiasts that still meets monthly in London, inspired Ms Abela's Ghost Club tales of plucky sibling ghost catchers who negotiate happy endings between the spirit world and real life.įrom reading to children, Ms Abela has discovered that ghosts are not something frightening for cultures in which the presence of ancestral spirits forms a key part of their belief systems. The fascination in the afterlife took off in Victorian times, an era of unparalleled industrial and social change. ![]() ![]() ''An adult readership will plod on through dreary plot because they have been told there are issues or larger messages but with children you have a two-second opportunity to engage them, they cannot be tricked.'' ![]()
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