Dial a Ghost

Author: Eva Ibbotson

Hallowe’en

Published on 3 September 2026 by PAN MACMILLAN (Macmillan Children's Books) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 240 pages
197 x 130 | 0g

Join in the spooky fun in Dial a Ghost, a laugh-out-loud, gothic adventure with plenty of screwball mishaps and ghastly hauntings, by classic children's author Eva Ibbotson, with delightful black and white illustrations by Becka MoorFulton has approached the Dial a Ghost agency with an evil plan. He wants some truly terrifying ghosts to scare his nephew Oliver to death - that way, Fulton will inherit the stately Snodde-Brittle pile instead.

The Shriekers are the most violent and sickening spectres the agency has on their books, but a mix-up results in the kind Wilkinson ghosts - and their adopted ghost-daughter, Addie - being sent in their place.

But when the mix-up is discovered, Oliver and his family must summon all their courage to face the terrifying Shriekers and foil Fulton's dastardly scheme . . .

'You'll love this chain-rattlingly, blood-oozingly hilarious story' - Daily Telegraph