A seriously spooky and brilliantly comic story from the outstanding Eva Ibbotson, now with a fantasic new cover-look! ‘Nobody knew what had gone wrong with Humphrey. Perhaps it was his ectoplasm . . .’ Humphrey the Horrible sounds scary, but he’s actually a very friendly skeleton, with twinkling eye sockets and jangling finger bones. Humphrey dreams of being ghastly, like A seriously spooky and brilliantly comic story from the outstanding Eva Ibbotson, now with a fantasic new cover-look! ‘Nobody knew what had gone wrong with Humphrey. Perhaps it was his ectoplasm . . .’ Humphrey the Horrible sounds scary, but he’s actually a very friendly skeleton, with twinkling eye sockets and jangling finger bones. Humphrey dreams of being ghastly, like his brother – a screaming skull - or terrifying, like his bloodsucking vampire-bat cousins. But when Humphrey discovers an evil plot to exorcise his family he finally realizes you don’t have to be spine-chillingly fearsome to be a hero. ‘Eva Ibbotson weaves a magic like no other. Once enchanted, always enchanted’ Michael Morpurgo About The Author: Eva Ibbotson was born in Vienna, but when the Nazis came to power her family fled to England and she was sent to boarding school. She became a writer while bringing up her four children, and her bestselling novels, including Journey to the River Sea , have been published around the world. Her books have also won and been shortlisted for many prizes. Eva died peacefully in October 2010 at the age of eighty-five