Written by the award-winning children's author Aidan Chambers, this books is hard to find and inspires a great deal of nostalgia in readers of the horror genre. One forum user writes:

"It's unfair to blame it all on one lousy paperback, but Haunted Houses has a lot to answer for. To the best of my knowledge, the first book I ever bought ... and you cannot comprehend my delight at finding a copy lying around doing nothing at the market yesterday.... I'm amazed how many of John Cameron Jarvies simple but effective illustrations burnt themselves into my brain, as did at least three of the 'true' stories. Motor-cycle mechanic Sid Mularney's experience of a spanner-hurling poltergeist provided incontrovertible proof that, not only can such things be, they can be in the here and now, albeit if you live in Leighton Buzzard. The vengeful skulls of Dorothy and Kraster Cook were an even bigger hit because they actually killed some people, but the absolute clincher, the one that fired my brain something crazy, was Mr. Chambers' account of the terrible fates that befell Sir Robert Warboys and two luckless sailors (named here as Edward Blunden and Robert Martin) when they came face to something with The Nameless Horror Of Berkeley Square.... And all these years later, I still absolutely adore the (uncredited) cover painting, two lit windows and all!"

Picolo True Adventures, 1975.
ISBN: 9780330028202. 123 pp.
7th Printing.
Paperback. Good+.
Edges worn. Back cover bottom corner has a dog ear crease.