by Susan Hill · Macmillan Heinemann ELT · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780435272227
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«I'm the King of the Castle» is Susan Hill's horror novel, published by Macmillan Heinemann ELT in paperback (80 pages, in English).
Charles Kingshaw moves with his mother to Warings, the Victorian house where Edmund Hooper lives. Hooper sees him as an intruder and subjects him to subtle persecution. Hooper turns everyday objects into sources of terror, and tension erupts during a walk through Hang Wood. The story addresses childhood cruelty, bullying, and fear.
Intermediate-level graded reader from the Heinemann Guided Readers series, in English, in an 80-page paperback. The original work won the Somerset Maugham Award.
For intermediate-level English students aged 12 to 15 who want to read a horror story in graded form.
Dame Susan Elizabeth Hill is an English author of fiction and non-fiction works. Her novels include The Woman in Black, which has been adapted for stage and screen, The Mist in the Mirror, and I'm the King of the Castle, for which she received the Somerset Maugham Award in 1971. She also won the Whitbread Novel Award in 1972 for The Bird of Night, which was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
