There were many strange stories about the Stone at the top of the hill. The old people said their parents had seen all sorts of boggarts and ghosts around it, and some said they had even seen the Devil up there. But no one believed these stories any more, no one except a young boy, Samuel Walton. Sam had seen the face on the Stone, a face alive with power and evil.

 

He found himself watching the stone as it stood dark on the hill.

 

He was sure the Stone and the evil face were watching him and plotting something. Sam began to realize that he was now being hunted by the stone and by the Monster that came off the Stone. But no one believed him. No one understood what lay behind the fear of Samuel Walton . . .

 

Runner up for The Young Observer Fiction Award 1984

 

"Green does a superb job of blending a mysterious legend with an accurate setting of English village life in the late 1800s"

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