SUMARRY "THE GHOST OF GENNY CASTLE

This book was written by John Escott and has 34 pages. It was a non fiction book. There are 4 main characters in this story, Claire, Aunt Mint, a cat and Walter Burge.
This story began when Claire's parent went for Christmas holiday, so Claire had to stay with her aunt names Mint. Just outside the village near her aunt's house there was a ruined castle. Many ghost stories were told about the castle locally. When Claire arrived at her aunt's house, she was fascinated by the castle, but her aunt told her to stay away from the place. This make Claire even more curious about the castle and she secretly went to explore it. Then Claire found a book which told a terrible story about death of a witch in Genny Castle two hundred years ago. It happened when a woman names Alexa came to the castle about two hundred years ago. She was a servant. Soon after she came things began to go wrong. Servants were ill and animals began to die. They though she was a witch and she was burned. 3 years after a witch died, a daughter of the man who's living at the castle too was ill. So man servant brought another witch to him. But the witch did not want to help his daughter. This is because he had burned her sister 3 years ago. A week later the girl died. After that, they took the witch to the top of the Black Tower and burned her. After that, people say that they saw and hear the ghost of the witch on the tower at midnight with her fire-coloured hair and her green eyes.
On the way back from the village one evening, Claire and her aunt had an accident in their car and to walk home in the dark and the snowing. They reach at a cottage where Walter Burge and his cat lived. Everyone said the old man was a little crazy. He was not in his house and Claire realize that he must went up to the castle. She was desperate to get helped for her aunt, who was ill and tired. She went up and found the old man and his cat.
Claire told her names when she called Walter to get help. This make Walter remembered back a story about Genny Castle. Walter knew the story of Alexa the witch with thee fire-coloured hair that was burned 2oo hundred years ago and a cat actually was a spirit of Alexa. He also knew Claire was the name of the daughter of the man that had died because the witch did not help her.
Suddenly, the wall of the castle fell down and the half of the tower began to follow them. Claire and Walter ran across to the stairs and down them. They looked back when they got to the bottom. Most of the Black Tower was suddenly not there. They found the cat in the snow of the bottom of the tower. It was dead. Finally all of the mystery of the castle disappeared.


NORADILA BINTI ISMAIL.