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Issue Details: First known date: 1985... 1985 Lighthouse Blues
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'A boy comes to an island to help an old lighthouse keeper. However, every Friday night, music plays, and the boy suspects it has something to do with the lighthouse keeper's ancestors. Was later adapted into a plot-arc of the first season of Round The Twist.' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal_(short_story_collection)

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Unreal! : Eight Surprising Stories Paul Jennings , Ringwood : Penguin , 1985 Z668486 1985 selected work children's fiction children's humour (taught in 3 units)
    — Appears in: Absolut unheimlich! 2006;     A ghost that haunts the outside dunny, a mix of manure that makes hair fall out, two musical ghosts who try to save a lighthouse - these are spooky stories with a surprise ending every time. (Source: Trove)     Ringwood : Penguin , 1985
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Paul Jennings' Spookiest Stories Paul Jennings , Camberwell : Viking , 2007 Z1435391 2007 selected work children's fiction children's horror 'This special anthology boasts twenty of Paul's spookiest, fun-filled yarns, hand picked by Paul himself' (Source: author's website). Camberwell : Viking , 2007 pg. 33-54
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