Book description
Not for the faint-hearted, The Black Ship is a novel packed with
chills, thrills, nail-biting suspense and heart-stopping revelations At
the Old Inn, which clings precariously to a cliff top above a
storm-lashed ocean, two sick children are left alone while their father
fetches the doctor. Then a visitor comes begging for shelter, and so
begins a long night of storytelling, in which young Ethan and Cathy, who
have an unnatural appetite for stories of a macabre persuasion, sit out
the last throes of the storm in the company of a sailor with more than
enough grisly tales to satisfy them. But something about this sailor
puts Ethan on edge, and he becomes increasingly agitated for his father
s return. Only when the storm blows itself out can Ethan relax but not
for long, for the new dawn opens the children s eyes to a truth more
shocking, more distressing than anything they heard the night before.
Not for the faint-hearted, The Black Ship is a novel packed with chills,
thrills, nail-biting suspense and heart-stopping revelations At the Old
Inn, which clings precariously to a cliff top above a storm-lashed
ocean, two sick children are left alone while their father fetches the
doctor. Then a visitor comes begging for shelter, and so begins a long
night of storytelling, in which young Ethan and Cathy, who have an
unnatural appetite for stories of a macabre persuasion, sit out the last
throes of the storm in the company of a sailor with more than enough
grisly tales to satisfy them. But something about this sailor puts Ethan
on edge, and he becomes increasingly agitated for his father s return.
Only when the storm blows itself out can Ethan relax but not for long,
for the new dawn opens the children s eyes to a truth more shocking,
more distressing than anything they heard the night before.
