The first in a gripping gothic trilogy from an acclaimed author,
featuring monsters from classic literary tales, secret societies and the
fight between good and evil.
Edgar Brim is a sensitive orphan who, exposed to horror stories from his
father as a young child, is afraid of almost everything and suffers from
nightly terrors. His stern new guardian, Mr. Thorne, sends the boy to a
gloomy school in Scotland where his dark demons only seem to worsen and
he is bullied and ridiculed for his fears. But years later, when
sixteen-year-old Edgar finds a journal belonging to his novelist father,
he becomes determined to confront his nightmares and the bullies who
taunt him. After the horrific death of a schoolmate, Edgar becomes
involved with an eccentric society at the urging of a mysterious
professor who believes that monsters from famous works of literature are
real and whose mandate is to find and destroy these creatures. With the
aid of a rag-tag crew of friends, the fear-addled teen sets about on his
dark mission, one that begins in the cemetery on the bleak Scottish
moors and ends in a spine-chilling climax on the stage of the Royal
Lyceum Theatre in London with Henry Irving, the infamous and magnetic
actor, and his manager, Bram Stoker, the author of the most frightening
and sensational novel of the day, Dracula. Can Edgar Brim truly face
his terror and conquer his fears?