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THE PHENOMENALS: A GAME OF GHOULS

THE PHENOMENALS: A Tangle of Traitors

When his butterfly-collector father is swindled to within an inch of his life, a vengeful Hector leaves the city of Urbs Umida in pursuit of a fiendish villain with a glass eye. The trail leads to Withypitts Hall, a forbidding Gothic mansion as warped as its inhabitants and their secret schemes. Soon Hector finds himself embroiled in mysterious deeds more poisonous than his worst imaginings, but every twist and turn brings him closer to his revenge . . .

The town of Opum Oppidulum is home to the freezing Lake Beluarum and its rumored monster. On an island at the center of the lake is an asylum; no one has ever escaped it. So how will Rex, whose father, Ambrose Grammaticus, has been imprisoned there under false pretenses, prove that Ambrose is not insane? And if Rex can free his father, will his evil stepmother drive them both to madness?

Higgins' fans will devour this deliciously scary tale, a "polyquel" to her previous books, all of which can be read singly or together. But not in the dark . . .

When Ludlow Fitch's parents cruelly betray him, he steals away on the back of a carriage and leaves behind the stinking City. He arrives in the dead of night at a remote village, where he crosses paths with the tall and limping figure of Joe Zabbidou - a pawnbroker with a difference. For Joe trades secrets, not goods, for cash.

Employed as Joe's assistant, Ludlow records the villagers' fiendish confessions in an ancient leather-bound volume: The Black Book of Secrets. There's the gravedigger who has been resurrecting bodies; the butcher who made a mouse-meat pie for his bullying father, with fatal consequences; the wizened bookseller who went to murderous lengths to get her hands on a priceless tome.

Ludlow longs to trust his mysterious master, but he senses Joe has much to hide. But then Ludlow Fitch has his own, very dark, secrets . . .

"Черную книгу секретов" объявили новым шедевром английской готической литературы, это был самый громкий дебют последних лет со времен "Тринадцатой сказки" Дианы Сеттерфилд. Большой успех ждал и новые романы-загадки Ф.Э.Хиггинс - "Заклинателя" и "Коллекционера стеклянных глаз". Гектор Фитцбодли перенял у своего отца, модного виноторговца и страстного лепидоптериста, любовь к бабочкам. Но вот отец, сломленный и разоренный шантажом одноглазого авантюриста Гулливера Трупина, умирает, а Гектор отправляется бродяжничать на Южный берег Урбс-Умиды и лелеять планы мести. И тут его познания в бабочках оказываются как нельзя кстати: барон Боврик де…

Книга, полная тайн! Новый завораживающий роман от автора готического бестселлера "Черная книга секретов". Пин Карпью - считай, сирота: мать-аристократка умерла, отца-плотника высокопоставленные родственники обвинили в убийстве, и он вынужден был бежать. Теперь Пин снимает угол в доходном доме у злополучно известного зубодера Бертона Флюса и работает у гробовщика Годдфри Гофридуса: караулит приготовленные для погребения тела, дабы стопроцентно увериться, что они мертвы. Но вот однажды ночью таинственная пара проникает в покойницкую и… оживляет одно из тел, чтобы задать ему несколько вопросов! Тогда Пин дает себе зарок - во что бы то…

Новый шедевр английской готической литературы! Самый громкий дебют со времени выхода "Тринадцатой сказки" Дианы Сеттерфилд. Семейные тайны и зловещие предсказания, оригинальные персонажи и мелодраматические повороты сюжета - все с избытком присутствует в этой увлекательной и по-настоящему английской книге. Если Диана Сеттерфилд в своей "Тринадцатой сказке" напоминала читателю о романах сестер Бронте, то Ф.Э.Хиггинс погружает нас в таинственную атмосферу историй Диккенса и Оскара Уайльда. Ладлоу Хоркинс, коварно преданный собственными родителями (повествование, как когда-то в "Острове сокровищ" Стивенсона, идет в основном от лица юного…

Pin Carpue is on his own in the world. His mother is dead and his father is missing after being labeled a suspect in a rash of murders. Pin finds a job working for the local undertaker as a body watcher, making sure people are really dead before they’re buried. The body he’s supposed to be watching tonight is currently surrounded by three people engaged in a most unusual ceremony. An old man, a bone magician, and his young female assistant are waking a woman so her grieving fiancé can have one last goodbye with her. Pin can’t believe it will work, but then the dead woman sits up and speaks.

Pin is determined to discover how the magic works. He cannot believe they are raising the dead. He cannot believe his father is a murderer. Then Pin himself nearly becomes the killer’s next victim.

As this mysterious tale unfolds with delicious creepiness, Pin will learn more about the bone magician, the girl Juno, and a hideous creature called the Gluttonous Beast that is kept in a local tavern where people pay for a glimpse.

Once again, F.E. Higgins delivers a story that is full of intrigue and suspense.

A boy arrives at a remote village in the dead of night. His name is Ludlow Fitch--and he is running from a most terrible past. What he is about to learn is that in this village is the life he has dreamed of--a safe place to live, and a job, as the assistant to a mysterious pawnbroker who trades people's deepest, darkest secrets for cash. Ludlow's job is to neatly transcribe the confessions in an ancient leather-bound tome: The Black Book of Secrets.

Ludlow yearns to trust his mentor, who refuses to disclose any information on his past experiences or future intentions. What the pawnbroker does not know is, in a town brimming with secrets, the most troubling may be held by his new apprentice.