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This spook-tacular writing competition challenges you to create a ghost story to send chills down the reader’s spine. Tell us your scariest story inspired by haunted houses, sinister shadows, strange goings-on or things that go bump in the night...

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Include your name, age and address on your entry.

Stories can be entered online or posted to us.

Stories must be your own work.

Only one entry per person.

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The writer of the best story per publication will win a selection of book titles

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Our ghost story competition is open all year round. Once we have enough good entries for a book, we create one & choose a winner per book. Each winner receives a £25 National Book Token.

Congratulations to all our winners this year in the 12 category. You can view the U11 winners here.

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