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Authors: Tommy Donbavand
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“My fangs!” exclaimed Resus, snatching them up.
“Well,” beamed Cleo, “what’s a vampire without them?”
“Still no sign of the pixies, then,” said Luke as he unfastened a section of the stage and handed it to Porridge.
“I think they must have followed the zombies into the tunnels,” said Resus. “With any luck, they’ll fly into a Hex Hatch and wind up back in the Underlands.”
“I hope it’s not the same one we’ll be using to get this lot to our next gig,” said Jazpants, loading another piece of the stage into the tour bus.
“Where’s your next concert?” asked Cleo.
“Norway,” replied the zombie. “We’ve got a huge following among the trolls.”
“They’re funny!” said Twonk, lumbering over with a pile of drum cases. “I bet they love our new lead simper, too.”
“Lead
singer!”
shouted everyone together.
“Oh, yeah!”
“Speaking of which,” added Porridge, “where is the little chap?”
“Here,” said Tee, emerging from the doors of Everwell’s Emporium. “Vein’s been helping me find a new look,” he added shyly. The young zombie twirled to show off his new leather jacket, ripped jeans and scarlet bandana.
“You’re the best-dressed zombie I’ve ever seen,” grinned Luke.
“These are yours,” said Tee, handing the sunglasses back to Resus.
The vampire shook his head. “You keep them,” he smiled. “Unless you want to end up a slave to injections like old inky-eyes over there!”
Vein smiled languidly and made a rude gesture with his hand. Cleo giggled. “I guess he doesn’t need a tongue to say what he thinks!”
“OK, guys,” shouted Porridge as he finished loading the last item onto the tour bus. “Everyone on board. We’ve got trolls waiting!”
“Give me a minute,” said Tee as the rest of the band climbed onto the bus. Vein nodded and waved his goodbyes as he clambered aboard.
“I want you to have this,” said Tee, handing Cleo a parcel.
“What is it?” asked the mummy.
Tee smiled. “Something to remember me by.”
Cleo blinked back tears. Resus put his arm around her as Tee stepped up onto the bus and the doors closed. Revving up the engine, Vein drove the bus across Scream Street’s central square. As the vehicle hit the invisible Hex Hatch, it disappeared.
Cleo tore open the parcel to discover Tee’s original mud-stained jacket. The embroidered “T” now had another letter beside it: “C”.
“I don’t think you’ll have any problem remembering him,” said Resus, hugging the sobbing mummy. “Hey,” he added as Cleo’s tears splashed onto his cape. “You’re showering me!”
“Showering!” Luke’s face paled and he ran across the square in the direction of his house.
“Where’s he going in such a hurry?” sniffed Cleo.
Resus grinned. “His mum and dad are still locked in the bathroom!”
Other Scream Street titles:
Fang of the Vampire
Blood of the Witch
Heart of the Mummy
Coming soon:
Skull of the Skeleton
Claw of the Werewolf
Tommy Donbavand
was born and brought up in Liverpool and has worked at numerous careers that have included clown, actor, theatre producer, children’s entertainer, drama teacher, storyteller and writer. His non-fiction books for children and their parents,
Boredom Busters
and
Quick Fixes for Bored Kids
, have helped him to become a regular guest on radio stations around the UK and he also writes for a number of magazines, including
Creative Steps
and Scholastic’s
Junior Education
.
Tommy sees his new comedy-horror series as what might have resulted had Stephen King been the author of
Scooby Doo
. “Writing
Scream Street
is fangtastic fun,” he says. “I just have to be careful-not to scare myself too much!” Tommy lives in Northumberland with his family and sees sleep as a waste of good writing time.
You can find out more about Tommy and his books at his website:
www.tommydonbavand.com
For Arran, who wanted to be a
zombie rock drummer called Twonk
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or, if real, are used fictitiously.
First published 2008 by Walker Books Ltd
87 Vauxhall Walk, London SE11 5HJ
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Text © 2008 Tommy Donbavand
Illustrations © 2008 Cartoon Saloon Ltd
The right of Tommy Donbavand to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
This book has been typeset in Bembo Educational
Printed and bound in Great Britain by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, transmitted or stored in an information retrieval system in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, taping and recording, without prior written permission from the publisher.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data: a catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN 978-1-4063-1427-4
