A thrilling and colourful comic adventure from the multi-award-winning author of JOURNEY TO THE RIVER SEA. When Madlyn and Rollo are sent to staying at ancient Clawstone Castle they soon fall in love with the house and its eccentric, penniless inhabitants. Theres grumpy, limping Uncle George, mousey Miss Emily, and reclusive Cousin Howard who hardly ever leaves his library. But the children are especially enchanted by the Cattle of Clawstone Park - rare and beautiful beasts, as white as snow and as wild as wolves. No one knows where they came from, but the owners of Clawstone have always protected them. So as the castle crumbles away, Madlyn and Rollo devise a money-raising scheme. With the help of a gang of ghostsincluding The Bloodstained Bride called Brenda, Mr Smith the one-eyed skeleton, and some dancing phantom feetthey turn Clawstone into a genuine haunted house! But as the money rolls in, a ruthless plotter is close to carrying out his sinister ambition, a plan that could threaten the very existence of the fabled Beasts of Clawstone Castle
