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    Spooky Poems
    Spooky Poems
    Spooky Poems
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    Spooky Poems

    By James Carter and Brian Moses

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    A spooktacular poetry collection!

    Spooky Poems     is a collection of scary poems about ghosts, ghouls, bats, witches, vampires and all things creepy – by bestselling children's poets Brian Moses and James Carter. The perfect gift for Halloween!

    A Good Scary Poem Needs . . .
    A haunted house,
    a pattering mouse.
    A spooky feeling,
    a spider-webbed ceiling.
    A squeaking door,
    a creaking floor.
    A swooping bat,
    the eyes of a cat.
    A dreadful dream,
    a distant scream.
    A ghost that goes 'BOO'
    and You!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPan Macmillan
    Release dateSep 24, 2015
    ISBN9781447272595
    Spooky Poems
    Author

    James Carter

    James Carter is an award-winning children's poet, non-fiction writer and musician. He has visited 1500+ schools in the UK and abroad in the last two decades and performed at such festivals as Edinburgh, Hay, Bath and Cheltenham. His buzzy, high energy poetry days/ Zooms are ultimately all about encouraging young writers.

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      Book preview

      Spooky Poems - James Carter

      DON’T READ THIS BOOK

      This book may well disturb you,

      it will creep into your dreams,

      for nothing you read in this book

      is ever quite the way it seems.

      This book may well reveal

      unpleasant things about yourself.

      If I were you I think I’d leave it

      up there on the shelf.

      It’s a wild and upsetting read

      from first page to the last,

      a wrong-side-of-the-road trip

      as strange ideas slip past.

      You’d be far better off not knowing

      about the horrors hidden within.

      It’s an open tomb, graveyard gloom,

      it’s sorrow and it’s sin.

      Your parents will be worried

      if they see you sneaking a look.

      Your teacher will advise you to read

      any other kind of book.

      So just leave it, don’t be tempted,

      don’t give it a second look.

      You’re far too nice a person

      to read such an alarming book.

      Brian Moses

      A GOOD SCARY POEM NEEDS . . .

      A haunted house,

      a pattering mouse.

      A spooky feeling,

      a spider-webbed ceiling.

      A squeaking door,

      a creaking floor.

      A swooping bat,

      the eves of a cat.

      A dreadful dream,

      a distant scream.

      A ghost that goes ‘BOO’

      and You!

      Brian Moses

      WHAT TO SAY IF YOU MEET A GHOST . . .

      James Carter

      THE FEAR

      I am the footsteps that crackle on gravel

      and the sudden chill that’s hard to explain.

      I am the figure seen flitting through doorways

      and the noisy rattle of a loose windowpane.

      I am the scream that wakes you at night

      with the thought, was it real or a dream?

      I am the quickening thud of your heart

      and the feeling things aren’t what they seem.

      I am the slam of a door blown shut

      when there isn’t even a breeze

      and the total and absolute certainty

      that you just heard someone sneeze.

      I am the midnight visitor,

      the knock when there’s no one there.

      I am the ceiling creaking

      and the soft footfall on your stair.

      I am the shadows that dance on your wall

      and the phantoms that float through your head.

      And I am the fear that you feel each

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