Silent Night

About this book

Masen and his younger brother Jos are looking forward to a family Christmas in a cottage in Wales. 

There are some weird fungal plants in the rented house, but in the kerfuffle of aunts and dogs and their grumpy cousin Conor arriving, the plants are forgotten. Then on Christmas morning, the three boys find themselves alone. No adults. No dogs. No festivities. And the plants have died, oozing a horrid black goo.  

They soon discover that every house in the remote village is echoingly empty. Then they see the people. Silent, with strange orange and pink eyes, they’re blindly marching south, stepping over everything in their path. 

Terrified, Masen and Jos retreat to a safe house with Gloria, a girl who’s helped them escape the hordes. But how safe actually is the safe house?  

This is a very creepy, Day of the Triffids-type story. Fans of horror stories will enjoy the tension and the increasingly chilling atmosphere. But, equally, the more faint of heart won’t be too scared. 

Masen is a very relatable character who has anxiety and feels guilty about not looking after his younger brother well enough. Unsettling and gripping, this is a very different sort of Christmas story!