They were coming tonight to tell ghost stories. 'A tale to freeze the blood,' wa
s the only rule. Switzerland, 1816.
On a stormy summer night, Lord Byron and
his guests are gathered round the fire. Felix, their serving boy, can't wait to
hear their creepy tales. Yet real life is about to take a chilling turn - more c
hilling than any tale.
Frantic pounding at the front door reveals a stranger,
a girl covered in the most unusual scars. She claims to be looking for her sist
er, supposedly snatched from England by a woman called Mary Shelley. Someone els
e has followed her here too, she says.
And the girl is terrified. This breath
taking new book from Emma Carroll, the critically-acclaimed author of Frost Holl
ow Hall, The Girl Who Walked On Air, In Darkling Wood and The Snow Sister, is a
deliciously creepy story inspired by the creation of Frankenstein, and is brough
t to life by a leading talent in children's literature.
