Welcome to the world of the Ghosts in the Clock and other stories by Nicholas Dore. I am Sir Percy, the famous and Dreadful Headless Knight! Our adventures have been written down in two book called "The Ghosts in the Clock". From this site you can find out more about my friends; the other ghosts and John, the little boy who discovers us, or more about our adventures or about the book. You can also read the second book about our adventures, called "The Ghosts in the Clock Walk Again", as well as other illustrated stories for children by Nicholas Dore.

      If you want a story about two children, a girl and a boy, who encounter a medium who can contact people on The Other Side (and just where is that?), a North American Indian Chief, once a star in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, the Chief's wife, Leaping Elk, a useless Roman architect and wall-builder called Alphonse Hadrian, a sinister Shaman (a sort of wizard who is after something lost for eons), a lot of fierce warriors from the Steppes, a Japanese Samurai, a crew of the oddest sailors ever to set sail on the seven seas with the express intention of sailing off the edge of a flat world, a stage magician with a terrible line in comedy, a potty scientist, some very strange-looking robots and a vast serpent as old as Creation itself, then Past Imperfect is for you.

     On the way our hero and heroine will experience flying clouds, see the Great Fence of China (yes, fence), learn to ride horses, wind up on a voyage of discovery - or possibly oblivion - and take a trip into the stars with a ship powered by a motor strongly resembling a small junkyard. They will see the Shaman finally discover how to release a terrifying beast, born in the first fires of the Universe, and threaten to unleash Ragnarok - in other words, the destruction of the world (and possibly a lot of others too).

    Naturally it will be in the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool that the final struggle will take place; can two children, an Indian Chief (good with horses but rather unreliable in other respects), a crew of hapless, hopeless sailors, a lot of medieval warriors, allied to a full choir and symphony orchestra, and a former dancer at the Follies Bergere save the world? Read on . . .

    This book can only be read online and is not available in any bookshop. This is because of the short-sighted, half-witted fatheads who control book publishing and wouldn't recognise a good book even if it jumped up and inserted itself in their noses, and who can only read balance sheets and then only if they are written in crayon. If you would like to rectify this situation, then contact the author.