When Fiona Kirby and Katy Manners bought some old string puppets from a junk shop, strange things began to happen. Whenever the girls put on a puppet show for young children, the puppets were damaged! Unknown to the puzzled girls, the mysterious puppets themselves, were the culprits.
Complete stories each with their own title, most of the stories were reprinted Damian Darke stories (from Spellbound). The stories were edited so the storyteller was taken out. Some other changes were made such as in “A Spoonful of Evil” the deadly spoon is the fourth in the set, but in the Nikki reprint it was the last deadly spoon and the story was renamed “The Twelfth Spoon”. For more details look at the Damian Darke entry. There was one longer Midnight Mystery (lasting 12 issues) about an evil ventriloquist’s dummy, who had children under his control so they could bring chaos to the town.
Story List:
During a school expedition, Melanie Benson’s teacher, Mrs Fincher, had removed a strange stone from an underground cave. Only Melanie knew this stone was the key to eternal youth for Razzan, a moon goddess. To ensure its return, Razzan had imprisoned the other girls who had been on the trip.
Ever since Emma Ford and her family moved into an old house in the country, strange things began to happen. Emma was worried but could not confide in her parents.
Tough Market Street School had a new headmistress, in the form of gentle Miss Mitton, Val Hendry and her friends were sure they would have no trouble in getting rid of her and the vast collection of pot plants she possessed. However, none of their plans came to anything.
Sisters, Rosie and Lee Irons and their mates had been trying to stop the council selling the old building in which their youth club met. Thomasina Battle, the GHOST of one of the family who, years ago had owned the house, was helping the gang.
Short stories that involve keys and mysteries or supernatural happenings. One story – The Day of the Ballerina has some friends investigate what they think is a ghost dancer, they find an old door with a key in it to take a closer look in the house and end up saving a girl from a nasty fall, she is part of a ballet production being filmed. Although when they check the door they entered by it is rusted shut. In another story a girl is unhappy in her boarding school where she is picked on by a teacher named Miss Brown. A comfort to her is writing notes to her parents and keeping them in a small box that her parents sent her from India. The box is meant to protect her from evil and it certainly does that when Miss Brown tries to look inside it.
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Plot:
A magical sundial enables Vicky Carson from 1991 and Emma Renshaw from 1891 to switch time periods. Vicky soon hates 1891, but Emma loves 1991 so much that she becomes reluctant to switch back.
