Book description
A bleak mid-winter. An icy wind blows through the corridors of
Foxwood Manor, a boys' prep-school deep in the woodlands of Dorset.
The boys have gone home at the end of the Christmas term and the old
house is left to the headmaster, Dr Kemp, his wife, and Alan Scott, a
boy abandoned by his mother.
As the snow falls heavily on the house and the surrounding woods, a
story of revenge and retribution unfolds: a web of half-truths and
innuendoes woven into a bizarre game of hide-and-seek through the
corridors and dormitories of the school.
The Perils and Dangers of this Night is a compelling story of
unfolding horror as a small boy undergoes a rite of passage, seeking
redemption from his haunted past.
After training as a lawyer and working as a teacher for 10 years,
Stephen Gregory moved to the mountains of Snowdonia to write his well
received first novel,
The Cormorant
.
He has since written
The Woodwitch
and
The Blood of Angels
.
