Anderson, originally created for a special limited edition published by Edel Torr Editions two new stories set in the world of the novel and a new introduction by the author. This hardcover includes illustrations by Anne M. The Irish thriller-writer (The Black Angel, 2005. Hodder & Stoughton reissued The Book of Lost Things in a new edition to celebrate its tenth anniversary. A childs nightmare odyssey through an alternate world inspired by the darkest aspects of fairy tales. All hail the new king.'Īnd as war rages across Europe, David is violently propelled into a land that is both a construct of his imagination yet frighteningly real, a strange reflection of his own world composed of myths and stories, populated by wolves and worse-than-wolves, and ruled over by a faded king who keeps his secrets in a legendary book. John Connolly is the author of the 1 internationally bestselling Charlie Parker thrillers series, the supernatural collection Nocturnes, the Samuel Johnson Trilogy for younger readers, and (with Jennifer Ridyard) the Chronicles of the Invaders series. The Crooked Man has come, with his mocking smile and his enigmatic words: 'Welcome, your majesty. He is angry and he is alone, with only the books on his shelf for company.īut those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness, and as he takes refuge in the myths and fairytales so beloved of his dead mother he finds that the real world and the fantasy world have begun to meld.
High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the loss of his mother.
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