Vintage Phantom Valley The Headless Ghost Lynn Beach Pocket Black HC Horror Book

Weekly Reader Book Club edition of a Minstrel Book published by Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster Inc.  Author: Lynn Beach.  Title: Phantom Valley: The Headless Ghost.  1992 English-language hardcover children's horror novel adapted from the original Minstrel paperback and produced for the Weekly Reader Book Club.  Narrative chapters follow Jenna and her friends as their desire to join the Shadow Club leads them into an abandoned, supposedly haunted cabin where strange noises, chilling apparitions, and rumors of a headless ghost force them to confront fear, friendship, and the consequences of dangerous dares.  Narrative type and audience: Fast-paced, dialogue-driven prose intended for middle-grade readers approximately ages 9–12 who enjoy light horror series, ghost stories, and suspenseful mysteries.  Slim black and blue illustrated hardcover volume with glossy color pictorial boards, cream interior pages printed in a clear serif typeface, and chapters arranged in single-column text with simple headings.  Vintage Weekly Reader Book Club hardcover edition of the Phantom Valley series, ideal for collectors of 1990s middle-grade horror, classroom or school library shelves, and nostalgic readers seeking children's ghost stories from the early 1990s.