The Stone Boat

A boy is wakened at night by bright lights in the town cathedral, and the sound of celestial music . . . a widow living alone by the sea is terrorised by a supernatural visitant . . . two boys on their way to visit a stamp-collector arrive at the wrong address and find themselves guests of a mysterious old woman who introduces that to the stamp collection of dreams . . .

In this haunting collection, encounters with otherworldly forces - benign, life-threatening or purely magical - are evoked with a consummate story teller's skill.