The Night Gardener
Subtitle: a scary story
By: by Jonathan Auxier
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9781419711442
Subjects: JUVENILE FICTION / Horror & Ghost Stories; Ghost stories; Brothers and sisters; Storytelling; Blessing and cursing; JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Siblings; Orphans; Household employees; Fiction; Horror stories; Ghosts; JUVENILE FICTION / Fantasy & Magic; Dwellings
Description: Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Arrivals. Storyteller at the crossroads; title: The silent trees; title: Miss Penny; title: The help; title: Portrait of a lady; title: The figure in the fog; title: Pit and pockets; title: Master of the house; title: The room at the top of the stairs; title: Footsteps; title: Chamber pots; title: The stationery box; title: A visit from Fig and Stubbs; title: Catch as catch can; title: The other thing; title: The garden in the woods; title: The night man; title: A rude awakening; title: Roots; title: Behind the door; title: pt. 2. Pursuits. Special delivery; title: Sweets; title: Doctor Crouch; title: Cold hands, warm heart; title: The pallor; title: Horse apples; title: Ichor; title: Asleep; title: To market; title: A story bought, a story sold; title: The legend of the Night Gardener; title: Fruit; title: Collapse; title: Leeches and lizards; title: A spirited debate; title: Traps; title: Camera obscura; title: Shears; title: The broken bough; title: pt. 3. Departures. The last story; title: Alone in the dark; title: Return to the Sourwoods; title: Body of evidence; title: Flight; title: Unwelcome guests; title: Trust; title: Comeuppance; title: Hide-and-go-seek; title: Lamp oil; title: Moonlight; title: The hero and the damsel; title: Courage; title: The conflagration; title: Ashes; title: What happened next; title: Storyteller at the crossroads.