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y separately published work icon The Ghost and the Goggle Box Duncan Ball , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1984 Z830399 1984 single work children's fiction children's

'When Roger and his family start to clean up Uncle Arnold’s ramshackle house, strange things begin to happen all along Wattle Street. Everyone in the neighbourhood seems to have a secret. Soon Roger has the most fantastic secret of all — a haunted TV set with most peculiar powers. Roger is in for an adventure he’ll never forget!'

Source: Author's blurb.

2
y separately published work icon The Ghost and the Gory Story Duncan Ball , North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1987 Z831772 1987 single work children's fiction children's

'Inside the house where Arnold Taylor has lived for 65 years — 61 alive and 4 dead — it's business as usual. Tenants are fleeing into the night just as quickly as the old ghost can scare them out! And then Kit Corwin comes to town. Little does he realise that his fledgling talent as a horror writer is about to take on a blood-chilling new meaning...'

Source: Author's blurb.

3
y separately published work icon The Ghost and the Shutterbug Duncan Ball , North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1989 Z838642 1989 single work children's fiction children's horror

'For six years the ghost of Arnold Taylor has haunted the house in Wattle Street and made unsuspecting tenants flee screaming into the night! So when budding photographer Tassana moves in, the ghost rubs his wrinkled hands in glee. However, Tassana doesn’t scare easily and when the grumpy ghoul gets up to his supernatural tricks, she devises a plan. Can she outsmart this devious ghost? All goes well till the troublesome ghost plots his revenge.'

Source: Author's blurb.

Works about this Work

Writing by Numbers Duncan Ball , 1990 single work criticism humour
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , vol. 34 no. 1 1990; (p. 6-8)
Writing by Numbers Duncan Ball , 1990 single work criticism humour
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , vol. 34 no. 1 1990; (p. 6-8)
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