The Tall Man

Mary Cathleen Brown

Published

June 6th 2024

ISBN

9781911427391

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

Bformat

Pages

324

A time slip adventure with a touch of horror. Can the mysterious boy in the cellar escape the Tall Man?

Tom has just moved to an eerily tall house known as the Tall Man’s House. Tom hears a boy in the cellar offering a ‘special’ acorn  to a rat, Captain Rat, whom he begs to find the key to his leg-iron. The cellar is empty but Tom knows that the boy is real and he’s convinced that he is trapped in a brutal past and the Tall Man’s prisoner. Each time he tries to help the boy, the Tall Man who haunts the house becomes more menacing.

The village is alive with stories about the Tall Man, dead two hundred years but still fiercely alive whenever Tom slips into the past that haunts the Tall Man’s house.

Can Tom and Captain Rat save the boy in the cellar?

A chilling, thrilling time-travel mystery. The Tall Man casts a long, dark shadow in this gripping tale.

– Phil Hickes

I read a LOT of children’s books. It’s not often that a book stops me in my tracks. The Tall Man by Mary Cathleen Brown did. It’s SO brave & original. It will be too much for some (it’s v scary) but certain readers will ADORE it. I’m one of those readers. Age 11+

– Sarah Webb

Charming, whimsical and a perceptive study in loneliness

– Zillah Bethell

A creepy time-slip tale to keep children on the edge of their seats

– Emily Bearn, The Telegraph

Highly inventive, beautifully written

– The Observer

Genuinely terrifying, but for the right reader, will open universes

– Irish Independent

Atmospheric, gripping and written in a way that captures the attention

– Books for Keeps

Superbly spine-chilling stuff

– Irish Examiner

A Gothic world of ominous intrigue

– The Irish Times

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