Awful End (published in the US as A House Called Awful End) a 2000 children's novel by Philip Ardagh and the first book of the Eddie Dickens trilogy, which was followed by Dreadful Acts.

[1] The German translation by Harry Rowohlt won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 2003.

Philip Ardagh uses clever puns and uses ambiguity of sentences to create a situation comedy.

Philip Ardagh is a children's author whose other titles include The Grunts, Grubtown Tales and Stick and Fetch.

[4] Mad Uncle Jack is the husband of Even Madder Aunt Maud.