Room 409
by Nance Donkin
A thirteen-year-old Australian boy on vacation in England gets a key to a room that
existed during World War II but no longer does.
He didn’t seem to fit in at all well with the modern decor of the place, but I got the
key from him and went towards the lift.
“Room 409” by Nance Donkin, in A Handful of Ghosts:
Thirteen Eerie Tales by Australian Authors, edited by Barbara Ker Wilson (Knight
Books, 1976).