WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF THE MONSTERS IN A BOOK BECAME REAL?
When twelve-year old Eliza Winter finds a secret room in her missing grandfather’s sprawling, Gothic house, her safe, sheltered life is blown apart. Inside, below a stained glass window where moonlight shines no matter the time of day, sits The Book of Kindly Deaths.
In defiance of her controlling mother, who has always forbidden her to read anything strange or imaginary, Eliza takes the book. As night sets in, Eliza reads one haunting story after another. And the further she journeys inside the book, the more the boundaries between our world and a shadowy land of monsters and forbidden places begin to blur.
When the strange, crooked man from the book arrives on the doorstep claiming to be a rare book collector and demanding entry into the house, Eliza’s world is turned upside down. To escape him she must dive all the way into the spine-tingling world of The Book of Kindly Deaths to save her grandfather-and write an end to the nightmare she’s caught inside.
TEASERS
His eyes were set into an elongated, yellow-white face, his paper-thin flesh stretched tautly over his skull like an old drum skin.
He grinned, revealing a mouth full of monstrous yellow teeth, and coughed into his gloved hand, looking as if he might be about to say something but had accidentally swallowed his words.
On a desk in the room with the stained glass window sat a book.
It was a thick volume with a worn and cracked black cover showing a gold symbol, a rectangle within two circles that sparkled and flickered as if teased by ghostly fingers. Voices whispered from inside the book, growing in volume, a few human, a few not.
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Eliza switched the bedside lamp on and set the book down. She was glad for the light as she glanced at the book with its cracked black cover. She pushed it aside. There was something very wrong with it. It wasn’t normal, and that hadn’t been a normal story, either. And even though she hadn’t read anything even slightly imaginative since early childhood, Eliza knew stories didn’t work like that.
Stories remained on paper. But that one felt as if it had followed her into the room.
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About the author:
Eldritch Black was born in London, England and now lives in the middle of a forest on a small island in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Eldritch writes books for children, young adults, and adults with childlike hearts.
When he isn’t writing, Eldritch likes to collect shadows and discarded dreams.
His first novel “The Book of Kindly Deaths” was published by Spencer Hill Press and will be released on the 16th September 2014. You can find out more about this ghastly tale of dark bookish adventures here.
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