"Spookiness is the real purpose of the ghost story. It should give you the creeps and disturb your thoughts..."

Who better to hand-pick the ultimate in spine-chillers than Roald Dahl, a writer whose own stories have enthralled and teased and twisted the imagination of millions? Here are fourteen of his favourite ghost stories - including The Corner Shop, In the Tube, The Telephone and The Upper Berth - each so tantalisingly terrifying that you might not have the guts to read them at all...