A CREATIVE Kidderminster teenager has written the "perfect ghost story", according to the judges of a national competition - and has had his spooky tale appear in print.
Jonathan Tidmarsh is one of 10 young people from across the country whose supernatural short story appears in The Perfect Ghost Story?
He was picked from more than 1,000 entries to the competition, run by The Guardian newspaper and publishing house, Piccadilly Press.
The former King Charles I pupil, who is about to leave for Bangor University to study psychology, said he was thrilled his story, Waking Asleep, had been chosen. It tells the tale of Martin, a young man living with his widowed mother and plagued by troubling premonitions. Judges said the character's "mental anguish is powerfully evoked".
The 18-year-old, from Harriers Green, Kidderminster, said: "It is a take on the traditional ghost type of story. It was a shock to have won and it is very strange to see your work actually in a book for the first time."
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