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|title=Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror

|author=Chris Priestley

|buy=Yes

|borrow=Yes

|pages=240

|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

|date=October 2008

|isbn=978-0747589228

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Edgar's parents are nice enough, but they are always distracted. They are certainly unimaginative. So, when in need of a story, Edgar braves the stares of the village children and the dark of the woods, and goes to visit Uncle Montague. Uncle Montague lives alone in a big, rambling, creaky house. Alone, that is, except for his manservant Franz, who brings trays of tea and cakes, but never actually enters the room.

It's well-written, it's challenging but accessible, and there's enough terror to terrorise very happily indeed. The whole thing is beautifully presented. Bookbag thinks it would make the perfect present this Christmas for any child you know who actually looks under the bed to see if anything gruesome is lurking. There's one of those in this reviewer's house with a nose buried in it right now.

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