The dark missions of Edgar Brim
By: Shane Peacock
Series: The dark missions of Edgar Brim -- 1
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9781770496989; 9781770497009
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Teenage boys; Juvenile fiction; Characters in literature; Fiction; Nightmares; Edgar Brim (Fictitious character); Boarding schools; Horror stories; Phobias; Orphans
Description: "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."--Page [2] of book jacket.
Notes: Issued also in electronic format.