Enid was ready for bed, she had had her warm milk and been tucked into bed by her parents, they were both going back downstairs to a party.

Her mum was wearing a hula skirt and her dad a flower boa and a straw hat, she wondered what the theme was of this party. Her mum turned off the light as they went out of the room, blowing her a kiss goodnight.

It was dark and she was sleepy, she closed her eyes and started to dream, but then she started to twist and turn, too many films going round in her head, she awoke with a start and sat bolt upright. Looking round the room her eyes picked out the fireplace and thought she saw a hand emerging from the grate stretching out into the room, wide eyed she lied back down on her bed and shut her eyes tight. She started to hear scratching, Enid looked around the room again, nothing, looking down the side of her mattress a family of big black spiders with huge legs were marching towards her at the head of the bed, she acted instinctively and almost jumped out of bed, she climbed out of her bunk bed and ran out of the room to find her parents.

The distraction of bright colours and funny clothes almost put her off her stride, eventually she did find them, they were huddled round the log burner in the kitchen drinking brightly coloured drinks with umbrellas and had half swapped costumes. They put her back to bed after checking for hands and spiders, tucking her in and told her to have happy dreams, and that is what she did.