- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Puffin Books (26 Aug 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140361405
- ISBN-13: 978-0140361407
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 508,047 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Katie and Josh run away from a children's home to live at Alton Towers. However, they soon discover that life is not fun when you live rough. Alton Towers is an eerie place after dark - another world of dark shadows and fear.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Firstly, take a look at the cover. It's one of those chilling pictures, like in films when the guy looks in the mirror and sees something behind him, then spins around and finds nothing.
When two kids called Josh and Katy decide they want to leave their mean foster home, they mean it. After a trip to Alton Towers Josh and Katy make plans to escape there, deicding it is the perfect escape route.
Once in Alton Towers, they mainly sit around in the gardens, until a sequence of strange events began to happen. First, a bag lady then, a boy who says he is the king, then, a man who sits in the middle of the fake stone henge playing a harp, and at night, when you step into the sircle of stones the atmosphere changes.
A chilling MUST READ!!!
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is just so amazing. It is nearly impossible to put it down. There are always new events happening and everything is just so discriptive.'A Must read'.
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Bought this on a whim, as the subject matter recalled my first nightmare following a visit to Alton Towers in the long-ago days when the funfair was still subordinate to the Gothick ruins and gardens.
The story is totally different to my youthful spooky-rooms-in-a-tower dream but very clever and absorbing. It starts in the harsh reality of life at a dreadful children's home where our two young heroes think of escape from from a life of beatings and (right at the start) of implied abuse.
It paints a gripping and realistic portrait of how the idyll is tempered first by the essential needs of survival and then increasingly by the intrusion of the good and bad elements of the supernatural. As in all good supernatural mysteries, it keeps you guessing in defining the real from the unreal and the good from the bad.
Highly recommended, not just for children but for the rest of us who still aren't ashamed to enjoy a good children's story.
The story is totally different to my youthful spooky-rooms-in-a-tower dream but very clever and absorbing. It starts in the harsh reality of life at a dreadful children's home where our two young heroes think of escape from from a life of beatings and (right at the start) of implied abuse.
It paints a gripping and realistic portrait of how the idyll is tempered first by the essential needs of survival and then increasingly by the intrusion of the good and bad elements of the supernatural. As in all good supernatural mysteries, it keeps you guessing in defining the real from the unreal and the good from the bad.
Highly recommended, not just for children but for the rest of us who still aren't ashamed to enjoy a good children's story.
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