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  From ‘On a Lord’ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Three Witches’ by Ben Jonson, ‘Look Out, Boys’ by Oliver Wendell Holmes and ‘Kehama’s Curse’ by Robert Southey in The Beaver Book of Creepy Verse chosen by Ian and Zinka Woodward, published by Hamlyn Paperbacks.

  From Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter, by permission of Harrap Ltd.

  From ‘Shadow Bride’ in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil by J. R. R. Tolkien, by permission of George Allen & Unwin.

  From ‘The Two Witches’ by Robert Graves in Collected Poems published by Cassell Ltd, by permission of Robert Graves.

  From ‘Grave by a Holm-oak’ by Stevie Smith in Collected Poems of Stevie Smith, published by Allen Lane, by permission of James McGibbon, the executor of Stevie Smith, and the Publishers.

  From ‘The Curse be Ended’ in The Family Reunion by T. S. Eliot by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd.

  First published 1983 by New English Library

  This edition published 1999 by Macmillan

  This electronic edition published 2011 by Macmillan

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  Copyright © James Herbert 1983

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