![]() ![]() ![]() Randy has his ideas about it, and the kids do too, but they must fight not just the scepticism of adults but the weird behaviour of those that have become obsessed. Why is it that Oliver keeps seeing a wounded zebra? Who is the figure appearing in the window of the deserted house on the headland? Why does the construction site suddenly close down when a cleft is discovered in the cliffside? What is in the hollows under there? And why are the townspeople becoming so wooden, glazed, and obsesses with opening that hole in the earth? But stranger things are in the offing, connected with the town’s mysterious history, the abandoned and possibly haunted house on the headland, and a move by a development company to build new seaside apartments on the ‘wild’ land of the headland. ![]() Their hub, or home away from home, is the video rental store where they are attracted to horror movies, and the lore of horror recounted by the knowledgeable Randy, owner of the store. ![]() Among them, Oliver is stricken by visions and seizures, while the others have the usual troubles and stresses of eleven-year-olds with parents and older siblings. This one follows a group of four eleven-year-old kids in the small country town of Seaham on the coast of Oregon in the 1980s. Colin Meloy The Stars Did Wander Darkling, Walker Books, January 2023, 330 pp., RRP $17.99 (pbk), ISBN 9781760657192įrom the multi-talented Colin Meloy, comes his fifth book for children. ![]()
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