Room 409
- by Nance Donkin
- Short Story
- Fantasy
- Children
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “Room 409” by Nance Donkin, in A Handful of Ghosts: Thirteen Eerie Tales by Australian Authors, edited by Barbara Ker Wilson (Knight Books, 1976).
A thirteen-year-old Australian boy on vacation in England gets a key to a room that existed during World War II but no longer does.
He didn’t seem to fit in at all well with the modern decor of the place, but I got the key from him and went towards the lift.
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- “Room 409” by Nance Donkin, in A Handful of Ghosts: Thirteen Eerie Tales by Australian Authors, edited by Barbara Ker Wilson (Knight Books, 1976).
He didn’t seem to fit in at all well with the modern decor of the place, but I got the key from him and went towards the lift.