In the DarkEdith Nesbits natural gift for storytelling has brought her worldwide renown as a classic childrens author. But beyond her beloved childrens stories lay a darker side to her imagination, revealed here in her chilling tales of the supernatural. Haunted by lifelong phobias which provoked, in her own words, nights and nights of anguish and horror, long years of bitterest fear and dread, Nesbit was inspired to pen terrifying stories of a twilight world

Despite the petty burglaries of her mysterious midnight visitor

Maybe it’s the way in which every hole is a puzzle to be solved

they’ll have no choice but to give up everything

and when putting on the school play

If there’s anything worse than being fired from the worst restaurant in town

the former Goth girl

and will embroil her in the struggle of the Abhorsens against the Dead who will not stay dead

Algo que se rompió en su cabeza cuando tenía 17 y la cambió de tal manera que ningún médico

and the traditional values he cherishes

who has been missing all morning

New York Times bestselling author of The Beach at Summerly

This summer will force them both to face what their identity truly means in their small Midwestern town