The book I got for Christmas: 'Even the cover was terrifying'; Continuing our series of Guardian writers revealing their most memorable gift books, David Barnett remembers how Usborne's The World of the Unknown: Ghosts scared him for yearsPlease share your most memorable bookish presents below and we will publish a selection later this week

Byline: David Barnett Christmas when I was a child was always about Event Books. Not paperback novels; those would be bought after Christmas with the book tokens I always received [...]