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I can't remember either the author or the title (shame on me) but do remember that it would have been published in the early 1980's. It was a small hardback for 10 - 15 year old readers, and had a collection of about ten stories. The first one was a story about a boy who dreams his plants are out to get him, and who manages to avoid death by a potted plant that his mother gives him, only to be flayed to death by the roses in the garden as he tries to escape the house. The second or third was about a boy called Dean whose father had bought a bronze statue at a police evidence auction. The statue itself comes to life, and tries to kill his family, implying that the crime it was involved in was a supernatural one. The final story I remember from the collection was one of two boys who go out on a boat in the Norfolk Broads, only to become stranded ghosts in the fog.
...Can ANYONE recognise the collection? I'm a librarian, and at my wit's end as to what it could have been. However, it was a UK book, not American.
...Can ANYONE recognise the collection? I'm a librarian, and at my wit's end as to what it could have been. However, it was a UK book, not American.