In particular to life and enhance the story's somewhat dark, nautical feel. Petersen's full-page half-tone illustrations bring the aufwaders Meanwhile, evil socialite Rowena Cooper also seeks the moonkelp for her own purposes, and is not above committing murder to get it. ("wanderer of the shore") in a cemetery, "eyes as big as his fists and as gray as the stormy sea" he learns how one of these "fisher folk" once married a human and bore a child, which brought about a curse from the Lords of the Deep-and Ben holds the key to finding the "moonkelp" that can overturn it. Jennet learns that Alice and the old ladies of the village are witches who engage in a monthly séance. Ben, who has seen visions of ghosts all his life, has a particularly terrifying night during which the house seems filled with them. What were they searching for? Why was their existence hidden? What did they fear, and what were the secrets of their tribe? It was an intriguing puzzle to fathom, and one that fascinated me more as the trilogy evolved.Jarvis's (the Deptford Mice trilogy) story of witches and creatures from the sea stars orphans Jennet, 12, and eight-year-old Ben, who are brought to live with their Aunt Alice in the seaside town of Whitby. Looking down from the cliff, I could imagine the wind burned and weather beaten aufwaders wandering the sands and peering into rock pools. "The appearance of the fisher-folk was based on the inhabitants of Victorian Whitby as captured in the wonderful sepia photographs of the time. In the Whitby Witches I have interwoven many of the existing local legends, such as the frightening Barguest, whilst inventing a few of my own, most notably the aufwaders."
Listening to Carmina Burana on my headphones, I explored the ruined abbey on the clifftop. It was a grey, drizzling day but that only added to the haunting beauty and lonely atmosphere of the place. "The first time I visited Whitby, I stepped off the train and knew I was somewhere very special. What he finds there might save Whitby from the most powerful evil. The fate of the world is about to be decided and the secretive aufwaders are the key to its survival.Īs the evil spreads, Ben steals away on furtive errands that take him to the town graveyard and the dark caves along Whitby's rocky shore. And a centuries old beast disturbs Jennet's dreams. A young woman dressed in white haunts Whitby's crumbling abbey. Suddenly, Alice's friends are mysteriously dying. Shortly after Ben and Jennet arrive in Whitby, it becomes clear that an evil force from the town's past is on the rise again. Unbeknownst to the children, Aunt Alice has a few secrets of her own.
0 kommentar(er)
