The Dead of Winter
- ISBN-10
- 1408800136
- ISBN-13
- 9781408800133
- Series
- The Dead of Winter
- Category
- Ghost stories
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Children's Books
- Author
- Chris Priestley
Description
Michael's parents are dead and he imagines that he will stay with the kindly lawyer, executor of his parents' will ... Until he is invited to spend Christmas with his guardian in a large and desolate country house. His arrival on the first night suggests something is not quite right when he sees a woman out in the frozen mists, standing alone in the marshes. But little can prepare him for the solitude of the house itself as he is kept from his guardian and finds himself spending the Christmas holiday wandering the silent corridors of the house seeking distraction. But lonely doesn't mean alone, as Michael soon realises that the house and its grounds harbour many secrets, dead and alive, and he is set the task of unravelling some of the darkest secrets of all. A nail-biting story of hauntings and terror by the master of the genre, Chris Priestley. Praise for Tales of Terror from the Black Ship- 'A fantastic page-turner, with a really scary ending' - Independent on Sunday Praise for Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror- 'Scare yourselves silly ... recalls the best of Edward Gorey in wickedness and humour ... Perfect for reading aloud' - Observer
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