AGES: 10-12
At the Old Inn, which clings unsteadily on a cliff top above a storm-lashed ocean, two sick children are left alone while their father fetches the doctor. Then a visitor comes begging for shelter, and so begins a long night of storytelling, in which young Ethan and Cathy, who have an unnatural appetite for stories of a spooky nature, sit out the last of the storm in the company of a sailor with more than enough grisly tales to satisfy them.