Do ghosts exist? Greg Jennings doesn’t think so. He is after all a science teacher, albeit one that is currently suspended. But when he starts working as a part-time cleaner in an old house that is home to nursery, he starts to wonder if he might be wrong. Because strange things start happening. Things he can’t explain no matter how much he tries to rationalise them. Deborah Cadbury, the manager of the nursery, has noticed odd things happening too. She persuades Greg to help her investigate the history of the house, and the family who lived there, nearly 100 years before. Together they start to uncover the chilling story of the ill-fated Pritchard family, and Mary Snell, the evil, scheming governess to the Pritchard children. And as they discover more about the house, Greg and Deborah discover more about themselves, and are forced to confront the ghosts in their own lives. But will they ever find the answers they are looking for? Can they really do anything for the phantom children who seem to want their help? It doesn’t seem possible. Until the terrifying night when the past and the present finally collide.

Dan and Una perform their shortened version of A midsummer night's dream and accidentally conjure up Puck. For many afternoons Puck brings them the bold adventurers who made their fortunes and left their marks everywhere on the English countryside.

Cold Iron is a short story by Rudyard Kipling. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 - 18 January 1936 was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children. He was born in Bombay, in the Bombay Presidency of British India, and was taken by his family to England when he was five years old. Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (a collection of stories which includes "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"), the Just So Stories (1902), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888). His poems include "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden" (1899), and "If-" (1910). He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature; and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift." Kipling was one of the most popular writers in England, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry James said: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius (as distinct from fine intelligence) that I have ever known." In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and its youngest recipient to date. Among other honours, he was sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, all of which he declined. Kipling's subsequent reputation has changed according to the political and social climate of the age and the resulting contrasting views about him continued for much of the 20th century. George Orwell called him a "prophet of British imperialism." Literary critic Douglas Kerr wrote: "He [Kipling] is still an author who can inspire passionate disagreement and his place in literary and cultural history is far from settled. But as the age of the European empires recedes, he is recognised as an incomparable, if controversial, interpreter of how empire was experienced. That, and an increasing recognition of his extraordinary narrative gifts, make him a force to be reckoned with.