Chas McGill, hero of Westall's award-winning "The Machine Gunners", wakes up to terror when he finds a World War I soldier in his bedroom, 20 years after he was supposed to have died. This is one of eight stories of the supernatural contained in this collection by Robert Westall. The haunting of Chas McGill—Almost a ghost story—The vacancy—The night out—The creatures in the house—Sea coal—The Dracula tour—A walk on the wild side