Holiday Club: 19-22 December 2016. The Whole Story: What is in the attic? – (10-14 Yrs)

Led by Sarah Mussi
THE Christmas season is a time for relaxing, eating and being happy, but it is also a time to reflect on the darker aspects of life (and death) to prepare the way for changes in the New Year. This is why Christmas is also a time for ghost tales and stories that make your blood run cold…

So imagine you are going to stay with a distant aunt for Christmas. Your parents for some unexpected reason have got to travel. You are alone. It is cold, and when you arrive, in the middle of nowhere, you find that everything is not as expected. For a start ‘auntie’ is ill and can't leave the house – plus she insists there's something in the attic…

But what?

Strange noises, a window rattling – doors creaking and sometimes footsteps …

What are you going to do? Auntie is too ill to go and check, and you don’t know anyone in the neighbourhood, plus now it's the Christmas season and nobody will come out to help – but worst of all the phone lines don’t work and there’s no mobile coverage.
Really, what are you going to do?
Create your own Christmas story – how scary is it going to get? Is there evil in the attic, or are there ghosts, haunted creatures trying to get back to their own time, or trying to warn you of something terrible?

Like Charles Dickens’s: A CHRISTMAS CAROL and Sarah Mussi’s: HERE BE DRAGONS join our sessions, and write a very traditional scary story. Bring your imagination, all your spooky en-counters and find out WHAT’S IN THE ATTIC?

Sarah Mussi is a multi-award winning author of children’s and YA fiction. Her first novel The Door of No Return won the Glen Dimplex & Irish Writers’ Children’s Book Award and was shortlisted for the Branford Boase. Her thriller Siege was nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal (2014) and won the BBUKYA award for contemporary YA fiction. Her novel Riot won the Lancashire Book of the Year Award 2015. Bomb, 2015, was listed in The Guardian New Best Kids Books 2015 list. Her latest novel Here Be Dragons, has already been showcased in the People’s Book Prize. .