Book description
Wintertime in the moody, atmospheric mists of East Anglia. Diving into
the cold, murky water of a lake, Kit and Joe find an elaborate patten -
a Fen word for ice skate. Its return to the surface is not widely
welcomed and, as it emerges, the story of how the skate became detached
from its owner fifty years ago leads the boys deep into a chilling
mystery whose conclusion is yet to be played out. What could have been
surging up through the ice that day half a century past that so
frightened young Tom Townley? Why has Tom suffered constantly from
nightmares and visions of beings who make no noise, but so menacingly
watch? Who are they watching now - and why? John Gordon was born in
1925. A Geordie by birth, he moved to East Anglia with his family at the
age of twelve. He served in the Navy during the Second World War and
afterwards worked as a journalist. He is widely recognised as one of the
finest contemporary writers of horror and the supernatural. His books
include The Giant Under the Snow, The Burning Baby and Other Ghosts,
Gilray's Ghost, The Flesh Eater and The Midwinter Watch. Married with
two grown-up children, he lives in Norwich.
