David Walliams - Demon Dentist

First published in hardback in Great Britain

by HarperCollins Children’s Books 2013 HarperCollins Children’s Books is a division of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London, SE1 9GF

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Text © David Walliams 2013

Illustrations © Tony Ross 2013

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Source ISBN:9780007453566

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Version: 2019-10-03

For my tightly folded bud…

Thank yous:

A few very impootment *thankingyous*.

Firstness*, the greatportant* Tony Ross, for once again bringing my words to life with your fantmazingillicous* illustrawings*.

Thankingyou* too to the head of children’s books at HarperCollins, Ann-Janine Murtagh, for all your beliefmentness* in me and my boovels*.

The editor Ruth Alltimes must be thankinged *

too for her meticuliffilous* editnessment*.

Kate Clarke and Elorine Grant, thankingyou both for your incrediment* cover and text designyness*.

The publicimitiousness* for this boovel* was organmented* by Sam White and Geraldine Stroud, thankingyou* ladymen*.

Thankingyou* too to the desk editor Lily Morgan.

Finallingness*, a hugalumptious* thankingyou * to my agent Paul Stevens at Independent. You are the bestmentiousness*.

* Multiple made-up word and phrase ALERTS

BEWARE.

THIS IS A

HORROR STORY.

WITH QUITE

A LOT OF

MADE-UP WORDS.

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Prologue

1. A Simple Case of Toothache

2. Believe

3. Whiter than White

4. Blacker than Black

5. Special Sweeties

6. The Intruder

7. Secrets

8. Teet

9. Tell No One

10. Urgent Police Business

11. The Plan

12. The Counterplan

13. Impro!

14. Balls

15. Bobsleighing Down the Stairs

16. A Beckoning Hand

17. Come to Mummy

18. Gurning Champion

19. Frozen Paper

20. Joke-shop Gnashers

21. Flying Tooth

22. A Gigantic Trifle

23. Jet-Powered Bottom

24. The Darkest Hour

25. Under the Pillow

26. Thick Brown Slime

27. A Case of the Willies

28. Out of the Fog

29. Asleep on the Toilet

30. Kneel Down Before Me

31. Swinging a Cat

32. The Lower Depths

33. A Cathedral of Teeth

34. Look to the Skies

35. Feasting on Bones

36. Drowning Out Screams

37. Skeletons on the March

38. Mummy’s Going to Eat You

39. One Final Breath

40. A Big Comfy Pillow

Epilogue

More from the World of David Walliams!

About the Publishers

Darkness had come to the town. Strange things were happening in the dead of night. Children would put a tooth under their pillow at bedtime, excitedly waiting for the tooth fairy to leave a coin. In the morning they would wake up to find something unspeakable under there. A dead slug. A live spider. Hundreds and hundreds of earwigs creeping and crawling beneath their pillow. Or worse. Much worse…

Someone or something had come into their bedrooms in the hours of darkness, snatched the tooth and left a blood-curdling calling card behind.

Evil was at work.

But who or what was behind it?

How could they sneak into children’s bedrooms without being seen?

And what could they possibly want with all those teeth…?

Meet the characters in this story:

Alfie, a boy with rotten teeth

Dad, Alfie’s dad

Gabz, a little girl

Miss Root, a dentist

Fang, her cat

Miss Hare, a Science teacher

Winnie, a social worker

Raj, a newsagent

PC Plank, a policeman

Texting Boy, a boy who never stops texting

Mr Grey, a headmaster

Mr Snood, a Drama teacher

Mrs Morrissey, an old lady