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The Power of Dark

by Robin Jarvis

Interest age: 11 to 15
Reading age: 10+

Published by Farshore, 2017

  • Adventure
  • Fantasy
  • Ghost story
  • Historical
  • Horror
  • Myths and legends

About this book

A close encounter with a rotting corpse during a freak storm would be disconcerting for most people but, despite the influence of her goth parents, Lil is a realist who believes there is a logical explanation for everything.

The same storm uncovers a long-lost magical artefact that becomes the catalyst to reignite an ancient feud and opens the door to unspeakable evil. Unaware of this, Lil doesn’t realise that dark forces, suppressed for centuries, are about to re-emerge and bring deadly consequences to the town.

Set in Whitby, allegedly the most haunted place in Britain, this is a creepy, tense and multi-layered gothic horror story. Suspense builds with each chapter as past and present are drawn into ever-closer proximity and collision and destruction seem inevitable. It might be wise to set aside a whole weekend before starting this book as, once begun, it’s almost impossible to put down. 

About the author

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 shape shifters 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).

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