Author: Gillian Cross

Pages: 162

Publisher: Oxford University Press 1986

The heavy red curtain swirls outwards. A stopped figure, alert and menacing, steps out from behind it. He carries a razor. Then suddenly - 

Rehearsals for the school play are going well. Perhaps too well. The actor playing Sweeney Todd is growing more and more menacing and evil. The children who play his victims are becoming more and more frightened.

Something is wrong somewhere. Only Jackus and Ann can feel the strange presence that haunts the play. Only they can sense what lies in the dark behind the curtain.