The Ghost Drum

Blurb

The Ghost Drum is a children's fantasy novel by Susan Price, published by Faber in 1987, and the first book in the Ghost World trilogy. It is an original fairy tale using elements from Russian history and Russian folklore. Like many traditional tales it is full of cruelty, violence and sudden death.
Price won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject.
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux published a U.S. edition within the calendar year, entitled The Ghost Drum: A Cat's Tale.