G.P. TAYLOR

Fresh out of school, young Mariah faces a new chapter of his life, living in the Prince Regent hotel built into the face of a cliff. His job is to assist the magician in the stage shows held for the guests. Above ground, the guests are offered every form of luxury. Below ground, in the green, slime-dripping walls of the basements, is where the magic show equipment is kept - and lurking in an Egyptian sarcophagus amongst scuttling sea-creatures is a secret that draws Mariah into the path of villainy, plots and possible death.

When a meteor strikes London, its inhabitants are devastated. It's not long before corrupt individuals start taking advantage of the disaster and, with the city lying in ruins, nothing seems certain to those who dwell there. In only they knew that, held captive and tucked away in an attic in the city, there is an angel. An angel who fell to earth with the meteor, whose only hope lies in the friendship of a servant girl named Agetta. For in this dark time of treachery and deceit, escape is not likely to come easily. Grade 7 Up-In this unremittingly dark fantasy set in 18th-century London, Dr. Sabian Blake, a scientist/Cabalist, receives a strange gift-a book of arcane knowledge that foretells the approach of a cataclysmic comet. As Wormwood draws near, bedlam breaks out and humanity's sinister side comes forward-all conveyed in exquisitely detailed scenes of violence and mayhem. When Dr. Blake's 14-year-old servant, Agetta, steals the book, she is pursued by demons, angels, and gargoyles come to life. Warring factions of an occult group seem to be vying with each other for possession of the volume, but in truth, it's all a plot to sacrifice Agetta so that the fallen angel Lillith can live on in her body. The horrors that evil begets are made palpable, but goodness has little purpose in this book. When the angel Rafael says, 'It is not for power that the universe was created, but for love,' it leaves less of an impression than the eye-popping murders he carries out by spraying his victims with his explosive blood. Indeed, the author seemed to be more concerned with special effects than with plot or character development. Agetta is nothing more than a pawn, the adults around her are unrelentingly self-interested, and the characters who do discover how their lust for power has made them blind persist in their blindness anyhow. Teens with a taste for the gruesome will be attracted to this supernatural thriller, but they'll find little sustenance here.-Carolyn Lehman, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA

Obadiah Demurral is a sorcerer who is seeking to control the highest power in the universe. He will stop at nothing. The only people in his way are Raphael, Kate, Thomas - and the mysterious Jacob Crane. Their tortured struggles lead them to a dramatic climax in the gothic church of St Mary's.

Entre las sombras, solo un ciego puede predecir el futuro...1756. Londres está atravesando una de sus épocas más oscuras; un cometa ha sumido la ciudad en el caos y el terror al Apocalipsis se apodera rapidamente de las gentes. Tersias, el joven oraculo ciego, es el unico que puede ver el futuro a traves de la oscuridad.Mientras los poderes de Tersias se acrecientan, los que quieren aprovecharse de ellos surgen entre las sombras: Malachi, el mago charlatan, Jonah, un salteador de caminos y Lord Malpas, guardian de misteriosos poderes. Pero ninguno de ellos conoce el alcance de la fuerza oscura que atormenta el alma de Tersias...

En Whitby, un pequeño pueblo de la Inglaterra del siglo XVIII, la magia negra y la brujería tienen un poderoso aliado: Demurral, el hechicero de las sombras. Movido por la ambición y sin ningún tipo de escrupulos, el parroco Demurral esta urdiendo un plan para convertirse en el mayor hechicero del universo. Para ello debe hacerse con un peculiar objeto, un querubin, pero Kate, Thomas y Rafah se interponen en su camino. Nada detendra a Demurral para lograr sus deseos, valiendose de demonios, espectros de otro mundo, criaturas magicas, sacrificios humanos... ¿Conseguiran las fuerzas malignas de Demurral triunfar por encima del bien? Ver otros libros del especial Lecturas Juveniles

1756. Londres está atravesando una de sus épocas más oscuras; un cometa ha sumido la ciudad en el caos y el terror al Apocalipsis se apodera rápidamente de las gentes. Tersias, el joven oráculo ciego, es el único que puede ver el futuro a través de la oscuridad. Mientras los poderes de Tersias se acrecientan, los que quieren aprovecharse de ellos surgen entre las sombras: Malachi, el mago charlatán, Jonah, un salteador de caminos, y Lord Malpas, guardián de misteriosos poderes. Pero ninguno de ellos conoce el alcance de la fuerza oscura que atormenta el alma de Tersias…

Esta adaptación al cómic del bestseller Shadowmancer, el hechicero de las sombras revive la emocionante historia de la novela con unas imágenes enormemente impactante

You will come to know hell better than most, Jago. I have waited all these years for you to come back to this town. England, 1940: Britain is entrenched in war with the Germans when young Jago is evacuated from the Blitz bombings in London to the Yorkshire coast. With just the memory of his dead mother for comfort, Jago is desperate only to survive the war in some peace. But arriving at the hostile Streonshalgh Manor in the town of Whitby, he is confronted with cruel and frenzied locals, seemingly possessed by ancient stories of clannish retribution and sadistic horrors. The RedEye comet hovers fatefully over the town; people are being viciously killed; and Jagos nights are spent as waking nightmares, darting through bloodstained and murderous streets. As shades of his past come rushing back to haunt him, Jago must confront the truth of this town - the perilous and violent truth of the ancient Vampyres.

Kate, Thomas y Jacob Crane han escapado del hechicero Demurral, pero han perdido a su amigo Raphah en el mar y los problemas les esperan en Londres, donde su barco ha sido apresado. Un terrorífico perro diabólico sigue el rastro de todos los movimientos de Beadle, Jacob y Kate y sobre Salamander Street pesa una terrible maldición… ¿Han destruido a Demurral para siempre? ¿O puede renacer con toda su maldad?