The Glass Demon
- 416 páginas
- 15 horas de lectura
Grant, Helen
Helen Grant Orden de los libros (cronológico)
1 de enero de 1964
Helen Grant crea cautivadoras novelas para jóvenes adultos que se sumergen en los inquietantes reinos del horror sobrenatural y el misterio urbano. Su escritura se caracteriza por una atmósfera palpable, que atrae a los lectores a narraciones repletas de suspense y secretos oscuros. Entrelaza hábilmente elementos de lo extraño y la tensión psicológica, explorando los límites del miedo. La voz distintiva de Grant reside en su capacidad para desenterrar las ansiedades ocultas que acechan bajo la superficie de lo ordinario.
After Pia’s grandmother dies in a freak accident, the neighbors in her little German hometown of Bad Münstereifel glance at Pia with wary eyes. But then something else captures the community’s attention: the vanishing of Katharina Linden. Katharina was last seen at a parade, dressed as Snow White. Then, like a character in a Grimm’s fairy tale, she disappeared. Ten-year-old Pia and her only friend, the unpopular StinkStefan, suspect that Katharina has been spirited away by the supernatural. Their investigation is inspired by such local legends as that of Unshockable Hans, visited by witches in the form of cats, or of the knight whose son is doomed to hunt forever. Then another girl vanishes, and Pia is plunged into a new and unnerving place, one far away from fairy tales—and perilously close to adulthood.