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These poems, for children from the ages of 9-12 (and up) were written, says the author, 'to scare kids into a love of poetry' but don't panic, there's nothing too scary here; just the familiar gallery of 'Hammer Horrors' vampires, werewolves and their friends (and enemies). What makes the poems so enjoyable is Kit Brewster's humour mixed with his love of puzzles and games especially computer adventure games, which have inspired the format of some of his finest poems. In fact, one of his poems, 'Goblin Gold', is amazingly, both a poem and a working computer program.

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"Christopher Brewster, or Kit, as he is known to his friends, has been writing stories since he was a young child. He rediscovered his passion for creative writing when, in 1984, he became an English teacher in a Rotherham school, where he enjoyed making up stories for his pupils. When one of them said, ""We think your stories are even better than those in books. Why not write a book yourself, Sir?"" He decided to send some of his stories to several publishers. One of them asked him to add some questions to a story so it could be used for educational purposes, and this led him to write a wide range of successful educational text books. He has since written for many other educational publishers including Cassell, Folens, Longman, and Scholastic, but recently has returned to his first love, which is creative writing, especially fiction and poetry. Kit Brewster is not the author's real name, but the nom de-plume he uses for his children's writing. He uses other pseudonyms for his adult fiction and historical writing. However, in keeping with his love of codes and puzzles, he has encoded his real name somewhere in this book."

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