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Hawaiian graveyard shirts you like so

much. We really must find a way to unstick

all that goblin slime from last year’s

ball too . . .’

(Goblins were notorious for leaving slime

trails – stickier than the stickiest super glue,

they were impossible to remove!)

‘Not another Barbaric Ball,’ moaned Amelia Fang, slumping back into her chair. ‘They’re always full of old monsters wearing too many frills and far too much Eau de Decay.’

Amelia had just turned ten and would

much rather be hanging out with her best

friends, Florence and Grimaldi.

‘Amelia Fang! I won’t have any of that

bat-chat from you,’ said the countess sternly. ‘Firstly, Eau de Decay is the finest perfume in all of Nocturnia. It’s made from fermented