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137 pages, Paperback
First published October 7, 1996
It beings on the motorway. The Smiths - Mum and Dad, Sammy, Miff (the narrator) and baby Bertie - are on their way to the Lake District, when they pass an old man in a brown suit, standing on the verge, smiling...(Hugh Scott also wrote The Haunted Sand)
Then, on the slip road, they pass him again, ... and again... On arrival at their holiday destination, The Ravens Crag Hotel, the Smiths soon find themselves drawn in to a dark supernatural mystery, involving a boxed-in pew at the local church, a Devil-worshipping child-murderer and the ghosts of dead children. And to be drawn in is to be in danger. Deadly danger...
"Horror and good writing don't often go hand in hand - Scott is a master of the genre." The Sunday Telegraph