Eibhlís Carcione
RRP
£8.99
Published
October 24th 2024
ISBN
9781911427438
Format
Dimensions
198 mm x 127 mm
Pages
288
Is Black Gabbles the creepiest school in the world? It's certainly a candidate for the title!
‘The school lies at the edge of a dark lake in the village of Black Gables where the hills are haunted by the curlew’s call. The school and village take their name from two looming black gables, all that’s left of an old workhouse where many died. The walls between the gables are all gone and the gables form a ghostly entrance to the school, standing there like the backs of two stone beasts, all bramble overgrown and the wind whistling through dead windows. And beyond is the Stygian lake with its strange waters that change colours.’
Rosella’s mother has lost her memory and her family have returned to Black Gables where she grew up in the hope something will stir her memory. But all is not right at Black Gables—in fact everything is wrong. The Head Teacher, Mr Edge is beyond sinister and he seems to be communicating with the lake ghouls.
Deliciously creepy, lush and evocative
– Phil Hickes, The Haunting of Aveline Jones
Black Gables is a deliciously dark, spine-tinglingly spooky and gloriously gothic mystery that swirls with danger, frights and secrets … an absolutely riveting read.
– Book Craic
Conjures a cast of menacing teachers led by a ghoul of a Head Teacher, the evil Mr Edge. Read Black Gables—if you dare!
– Susie Bower, The Dangerous Life of Ophelia Bottom
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Black Gables is a fantastical feast of gothic, a lush and descriptive mystery adventure perfect for tingling spines and raising goosebumps. At its dark heart is Rosella, thrown into a school full of menacing teachers, a positively ghoulish headteacher, and a host of strange creatures and apparitions. Truly a class act!
– Pam Norfolk, Wigan Today
Told through the unsettling first-person narrative of Rosella, who is sometimes a step behind the reader in perceiving her own peril, this is the second chillingly creepy early-teen novel from Cork’s Eibhlís Carcione, author of Welcome to Dead Town Raven McKay
– Irish Examiner
There is a satisfying eeriness in Eibhlis Carcione’s gothic Black Gables in which Rosella attends a creepy school in a creepy town. It reads like one long bad dream of cruel teachers and supernatural goings-on. But even this is as much mystery as horror. Sunday Times
– Sunday Times Best Books for Halloween
In wonderfully atmospheric prose, the book introduces us to a band of beyond-weird teachers with their strange pets; and the ghouls who rise up from the lake, and seem to commune with Mr Edge, the evil headmaster.
– Irish Examiner
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