The Witch of Lagg

Recipe. Spend the first chapter qualifying everything and everyone with masses of background information. Then let it roll with all the standard ingredients of the horror/suspense armoury. Wrap it in a half skull/half alluring girl jacket design and hey presto -- another very busy, pacey and predictable book for youngsters! Colin, Prill and baby sister Alison accompany their painter father to an eerie Scottish castle and are joined fortuitously by bossy aunt Phyllis and her sensitive, boffin son Oliver. Whilst dad wrestles with the portrait of the mysterious, malicious owner, the kids get themselves haunted, tormented and frightened witless by a good spook and a revengeful spook - in the same series as Black Harvest and The Beggar's Curse by the same author.