'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.
Macmillan Children's Books Great ghost rescue, paperback/eva ibbotson
