Stories of all kinds await. From anachronistic historical figures to nightmares and other horrors, each author is creative and full of imagination. Read about what children dream of for their lives, hear moving dialogue between loved ones, and enter a world without adults.

— Simon Traub-Epstein, International Library of Young Authors

From the foreword by Max Porter: “I was driving through Beaminster recently and it was a normal busy weekday morning, people popping into shops, chatting on the street, going about their business. Little did I know that just up the road The Bank of Dreams and Nightmares was roaring, exploding, clattering into action in Beaminster School, firing up this extraordinary collection of stories. Pouring out of the school into the bright Dorset morning were these tales of betrayal, yearning, adventure, jeopardy, cold-blooded murder and chilling suspense.”