Super funny, super spooky middle grade for budding horror fans about a talkative skull and a necromancer-in-training – perfect for Lemony Snicket readers!

When Mallory Vayle’s parents’ carriage takes a leap off Gibbett Bridge, she’s left orphaned – but not alone. Due to gifts she’d rather not acknowledge, she can see and speak to their ghosts!

But when her ghost parents are cruelly kidnapped, Mallory will have to use the talents she hates to get them back. And who will teach her to hone her necromancy skills, you ask?

A talking skull called Maggoty, who wants some favours in return for his help – not just a gorgeous wig and some sparkly earrings, but for Mallory to break the curse that locked his spirit inside his skull for 500 years.

Will Mallory be able to lean into her gifts and get her parents back? Will she ever learn to love her chatty sidekick? And will Maggoty ever find the perfect earrings to match his fabulous new wig…

Packed with outrageous characters, you’ll cackle your way through this ghoulish tale that brings humour to the macabre! Sure to raise wigs (and tickle ribs) this is the perfect book for 9+ horror fans!