by Robin Jarvis · Simon & Schuster Young Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780750015813
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«The Whitby Child» is Robin Jarvis's horror and fantasy novel for young readers, published by Simon & Schuster Young Books in paperback (342 pages).
At night, something sinister emerges from Whitby harbour and slips through the streets while Ben sleeps restlessly, watched by gleaming eyes. On the coast, Nelda the aufwader hides a secret, and Alice Boston, bedridden by illness, receives a visit from a ghost that warns her of a great threat.
Third instalment of the Whitby trilogy, also known as The Whitby Witches, published in 1994 in English.
For young readers aged 8 and up who enjoy supernatural horror and fantasy set in a coastal town.
Robin Jarvis is a British young adult fiction (YA) and children's novelist, who writes dark fantasy, suspense and supernatural thrillers. His books for young adults have featured the inhabitants of a coastal town battling a monumental malevolence with the help of its last supernatural guardian (The Witching Legacy), a diminutive race of Werglers pitched against the evil might of the faerie hordes (The Hagwood Trilogy), a sinister "world-switching" dystopian future, triggered by a sinister and hypnotic book (Dancing Jax), Norse Fates, Glastonbury crow-demons and a time travelling, wise-cracking teddy bear. (The Wyrd Museum series), dark powers, a forgotten race and ancient evils on the North Yorkshire coast (The Whitby Witches trilogy), epic medieval adventure (The Oaken Throne) and science-fiction dramatising the "nefarious intrigue" within an alternate Tudor realm, peopled by personalities of the time, automata servants and animals known as Mechanicals and ruled by Queen Elizabeth I. (Deathscent).
