When the school clock stops for the first time while a boy who thinks war games are a laugh is in detention, a blast from the past gives him a wake up call to the real horrors of war.
A grandmother incessantly reads a repetitive spooky poem to her grandson, leaving him in a state of being unable to separate the natural from the supernatural.
In 1880, two boys scrumping apples from a churchyard use the legend of a ghostly drummer boy in an attempt to frighten the elderly sexton who tries to stop them.
Peter is used to sitting around in haunting houses waiting for something to happen and it never does. But this time, he and his female companion Sally may wish it hadn't.