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The scarecrows

The scarecrows

by Robert Westall

StepfathersHorror storiesRemarriageFictionLarge type books
5.0
Open Library
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About this book

While visiting his mother and new stepfather whom he hates, an English teenager is terrorized by three scarecrows embodying people who met violent death and who silently threaten the entire family.

Themes & subjects

StepfathersHorror storiesRemarriageFictionLarge type booksChildren's fiction

About the author

Robert Westall

1929

Author

Robert Westall

Pages

160

Read time

≈ 4h

Editions

8

Languages

English, und

Publisher

Penguin

ISBN

9781850899730

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