l’Êcole des loisirs
Foreign Rights Catalogue Novels Spring 2014
ntirely dedicated to
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children’s books since
1965, l’école des loisirs’ main ambitions are to make reading a pleasure for children and to create a home for the authors. We like to consider the authors’ entire works rather than simply their latest title; that is why this catalogue tries to present the books to come but also those we have already published.You will probably notice that our authors write for all ages, including some for adults.
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Mouche - First readers 3 Delphine Bournay 4-5 Colas Gutman 6 Jean Leroy & Matthieu Maudet 7 Christian Oster 8 Alice de Poncheville 9 Florence Seyvos 10 Brigitte Smadja 11 Our selection for first readers Neuf - 9 to 12 years old readers 12 Eva Almassy 13 Gisèle Bienne 14-15 Audren 16 Claire Castillon 17 Malika Ferdjoukh 18 Our selection for 9+ Médium -Young adults 19 Our selection for YA 20 Emmanuelle Caron 21 Carole Fives 22 Frédéric Faragorn 23 Jean-Jacques Greif 24 Thierry Guilabert 25 Susie Morgenstern 26 Éric Pessan 27 N. M. Zimmermann
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Delphine Bournay grew up
Full-color illustrations by the author 48 pages
Jaguar Power Each time Guillaume and Gaspard sit down at the table, it ends in fighting. The brothers both want to sit in front of the jaguar hanging on the wall. Since that’s impossible, there’s always one of them who makes a scene. So Mom gets annoyed, scolds them and ends up jumping on the table, in the middle of the pasta shells, letting out terrible roars. It must be said that Mom often gets irritated these days. Guillaume and Gaspard wonder why...
with her two sisters, and she imagined stories to make them laugh… Today she puts a lot of herself in her stories. “This book is based so much on my life that I never imagined illustrating it differently than with a mom and her two sons.”
This family chronicle is a book for all ages. Both mothers and kids will recognize themselves in the scenes of daily life. SERIES SOLD Polish, German Korean, Simplified & Complex Chinese
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In 2012, in L’enfant, which took the Prix Sorcières, Colas Gutman narrated the adventures of Leonard, a child of the city who discovered with horror the joys of the countryside. Now Leonard has returned, and he still isn’t happy!
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Two-color illustrations by Delphine Perret 48 pages
Bedtime Story for Parents
Delphine Perret is an illustrator, and sometimes an authorillustrator, of numerous picture books and novels for young readers.
Have you had enough of the stories your parents tell you at bedtime? You can’t take any more of their castles, dragons, lack of imagination, unfunny jokes? Do what Leonard does, and tell them a story yourself! Add a good dose of truth and a hint of exaggeration. Shock them, make them shudder, and use all this to extort ice cream, candy, and a new fire truck from them. Then you’ll see that they’ll be so tired, all you have to do is send them to bed. Come on, parents! It’s a bedtime story!
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DUMB DOG SERIES (3 TITLES)
Colas Gutman
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invented a one-of-a-kind dog, a cross between a wet rag and a doormat: Dumb Dog. Thrilled with his discovery, he decided to start a series starring this totally dumb doggy with the great illustrator Marc Boutavant.
Full-color illustrations by Marc Boutavant 64 pages
Dumb Dog at the Beach It’s hot in the summer — especially when you live in a garbage can. Dumb Dog and his loyal friend Flat Cat dream of vacationing on the French Riviera. Miracle of miracles, there’s room for them at the Camp of the Forgotten. On the schedule: collecting trash, Club Kid, and sand ice cream cones. A fantastic, rotten vacation on the horizon!
In this series of hilarious novels, Colas Gutman puts all his heart into the absurd dialogs, and Marc Boutavant illustrates the adventures aptly and imaginatively.
Marc Boutavant is author and illustrator of a large number of books for children. He is also a poster designer and works for the press. Like every character he illustrates, he has brought Dumb Dog to life with all the pertinence and tenderness necessary for humor.
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© Yoann Buffeteau
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The duo of
Jean Leroy and Matthieu Maudet return with a new story about the witch with the crooked nose. Their first picture book together came out in 2008. Since then, Jean Leroy has become a fulltime writer and Matthieu Maudet has allowed himself to put sentences with his images.
Black & white illustrations by Matthieu Maudet 40 pages
The Witch, Her Daughter, and the Wolf This is the story of an old witch who doesn’t like anyone or anything except her daughter. One day, while they are walking through the forest, they meet an old, lone wolf, the former terror of the forest. In exchange for their lives saved, the witch agrees to prepare a meal for the wolf every day. While the witch cooks, her little girl enjoys the aging wolf ’s stories... to the point that the witch is jealous, and the animal quite touched!
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Christian Oster
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recognizes that he was late to discover tales. The audacity and inventiveness of the Grimm brothers now fill him with enthusiasm. He never tires of paying homage to the genre, renewing it each time he writes a story.
Full-color illustrations by Adrien Albert 56 pages
Prince Prudent’s Principal Problem Prince Prudent wore his name well. He was prudent in all things, fearing at any moment that he would eat a poisoned croissant, catch a cold, or even be attacked from behind as he set off to war. Prince Prudent also feared marrying, but as his parents insisted, he accepted to meet some princesses under the condition that they pass some tests. He did not know that danger doesn’t always come from where you expect it or that you can battle a giant and fall in love, even while remaining prudent.
By turns certified in public law, a metallurgist, a video maker, a butler, a cook, and a furniture burner, at age thirty-five,
Adrien Albert now draws for the press and focuses on books for young readers.
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“It was as if I had opened a door, and they were all there waiting for me...” That’s how Alice de Poncheville met her new characters, the inhabitants of Dreamy Forest. Thanks to them, the novelist who usually writes for teenagers and adults has discovered the pleasure of writing for children.
Black & white illustrations by Charles Castella 88 pages
Charles Castella writes screenplays and articles about cinema while still making movies and drawing. With the birth of his son, he has started illustrating for children. It’s one way of making little films on paper.
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One Lively Beech Tree A tree has just come to live in a forest, and no one has ever seen anything quite like it — not even in Dreamy Forest. The tree planted itself next to the local bar, then blended into the decor in order to go unnoticed. The birds quickly unearthed it. The beech tree ended up explaining that it had taken refuge in Dreamy Forest to escape the teeth of a crazed beaver. Should the inhabitants give him shelter, or send him back home? They’re going to have to decide quickly: the tree has started emitting a toxic gas!
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Florence Seyvos has worked
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in the world of children’s publishing since the age of 22. She has written several films, and novels for adults and children. Her two heroines move into a new apartment and have stuffed animals and dolls that are never at a loss for words.
Full-color illustrations by Mette Ivers 64 pages
Charlotte and Mona This is a big day for Charlotte and Mona. They are moving into their new apartment today, and from now on, each one will have her own bedroom. In Charlotte’s room there is a big closet. In Mona’s room there is a fireplace. But does this mean that their stuffed animals are going to be separated? And where will they read a story tonight?
Born in Paris, Mette Ivers is of Danish descent. She did her studies in France and at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. She splits her time between painting, drawing and illustrating books.
This book brings together three stories about Charlotte and Mona: The Bedroom on the Left and the Bedroom on the Right, Pistachio Radio, and Charlotte and the Ghost.
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THE POZZIS SERIES (8 TITLES)
It was a walk in Corsica that inspired
Brigitte Smadja
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to create a new world. The Pozzis is her first truly autobiographical tale.
Full-color illustrations by Alan Mets 96 pages
Alan Mets prefers that people read his books rather than talk about him. We can say that he was born in Paris in 1961, and that after studies in philosophy and cinema he became an author and illustrator of children’s books.
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The Pozzis - Vol.8: Miloche Miloche and the Pozzis are assigned the task of finding Adèle, who is lost in the Elsewhere. The night before, Antoche was almost killed by a creature now lying on the ground, injured by an arrow. This arrow could only belong to an Elsewherian. Who is this Elsewherian that wanted to save them? Miloche is ready for anything to find out, including waking the beast with gold spikes, or even following it into the dark, cold forest. Where will his search lead him?
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Our selection for first readers
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Eva Almassy is fascinated by black holes, and reading The Little Prince left its mark on her at a very young age. She quite naturally melded these two passions in a dreamlike book about space that tells the very modern story of an emotionally insecure runaway teen.
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Full-color illustrations by Thanh Portal 96 pages
The Little Principle
Bookbinding, bookshops, literary studies, publishing, libraries: after all that,
Thanh Portal continues her tour of the world of books, putting colors everywhere!
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An astronaut comes out of his space shuttle to do some repair work. Suddenly, he hears a voice asking him strange questions. A voice? In space? A child, with a laugh as clear as crystal, appears before him. His name is Little Principle. Where does he come from? The Little Principle avoids responding. He’s happy to be there. As the astronaut travels from one black hole to the next, he meets the most stunning characters and experiences the universe, which means he also experiences life.
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© cover illustration by Gabriel Gay
© Lucette Turbet
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196 pages
In the Land Where Someone Awaits Us
In order to write In the Land Where Someone Awaits Us, Gisèle Bienne rediscovered the little girl she once was: the girl who dreamed of other places, of adventures with her brother. Thanks to this novel, she has made their dream of traveling come true. She decided to give her young heros a successful voyage by helping fate a little...
Siberia is the name of the farm where Fanny and Quentin spend the strangest summer of their life. They are staying indefinitely at Gilles and Jeanne’s home, while somewhere in a hospital their mother undergoes an operation. Their father has asked them not to call and remain optimist. And then Gilles and Jeanne leave them alone one long weekend. Is it the wait that suddenly becomes too hard to bear? The winds of freedom start to blow in Quentin’s mind. In the middle of the night, Fanny and Quentin put their belongings in the trunk of the tractor and take off. Quentin calls it vacation. It’s also called running away.
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The Orphans of Abbey Road Series
The Green Devil – Vol. 1 288 pages
The World of Alvenir – Vol. 2 302 pages
The Lights from the Past – Vol. 3 304 pages
“A Dickensian orphanage ambience with old-fashioned charm and a heavy atmosphere that progressively dives into fantasy. On top of it all, there are demons and hidden worlds, and an ambience at times totally frightening...” Chez Radicale
“Far from stopping at a simple initiatory quest, the author develops a gothic atmosphere where the world of children and that of adults, where reality and imagination, confront one another. ” De l’autre côté du miroir
“Over the course of the series, the heroines assert themselves, all while remaining children and keeping their imagination. They grow up, yes, but not too much. Have you ever dreamt of having fantastic sisters? We’ve found them!” Je bouquine, Bayard Presse
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Last volume 304 pages
The Invasion of the Mogadors - Vol. 4 While at the Abbey Road manor, the Green Devil prepares for the invasion of the orphanage by his people, the Mogadors. Meanwhile, Joy is captivated in the world of Alvenir. It seems only she can cure Alonn, the boy with the violet eyes, of the illness eating away at him. Little by little, Joy discovers that beneath the apparent gentleness of the magical world of Alvenir, there lies a dictatorship. She now understands the Green Devil’s revolt. There is also confusion in Joy’s heart. Is she really in love with Alonn? Is it possible that through her own feelings she changed the nature of Almour and made him able to love?
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© cover illustration by Christel Espié
ABBEY ROAD SERIES (4 TITLES)
Singer and author Audren writes poetry, plays for the theater, songs, and novels. Convinced of the existence of magic in real life, she naturally makes fantasy crop up in her stories. The orphans of Abbey Road have experienced it....
The fourth and last volume gives us the keys of this adventure’s greatest mysteries. Our heroines come out of it victorious and wiser.
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© Jean-François Paga
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little girl, her father took her to the beach one weekend. Just the two of them, and her “beloved bathing suit with watermelons and pineapples” in her Mickey Mouse bag. It was a weekend where they had to break out the umbrellas more than the bathing suit. Now that she is big, she turns her memories into novels with humor and imagination.
© cover illustration by Séverin Millet
When Claire Castillon was a
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A One-Piece Swimsuit with Watermelons and Pineapples “My name is Nancy Pinsault. There are five of us in our family, like the five fingers on your hand. But not all hands look alike. In my family, my dad’s beautiful hand designs houses. My sister Aline’s hesitant hand alternates between pearly nail polish and sequin nail polish. My brother Igor’s decisive hand gives out a slap. Dr. Croc’s hand slides down my mom’s back. Mom’s generous hand gives me a one-piece swimsuit with watermelons and pineapples on it. As for my little finger, it tells me strange stories. But can you believe all the mysteries trapped in one little finger?”
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© cover illustration by Cati Baur
Malika Ferdjoukh
86 pages
has a name that evokes the sun, but she likes wind and fog. In order to imagine the Rain Club, this lover of American detective novels blended her memories of childhood readings with her experiences as a teacher in a boarding school.
The Rain Club at the Boarding School of Mysteries When Rose enters the Black Rock boarding school, she has no idea what awaits her. She meets Nadget with her ravishing smile, Ambroise, the son of the guards at the boarding school, and his dog Clipper. One rainy day, while taking a tour of the boarding school, they notice bits of paper with pleas for help thrown from the tower. Who could be sending those messages? It’s a mystery that the Rain Club, as they call themselves, has to solve.
This book brings together two Rain Club investigations, The Mystery of the Tower and The Saint-Malo Thief. Two new adventures will be published next fall in The Rain Club Braves the Storms . l’école des loisirs
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Our selection for 9+
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Our selection for Young Adults
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Now living in Canada,
Emmanuelle Caron returns to her native land in Brittany with Lorelei in Brittany. She has penned a novel at once realist and dreamlike, a novel about learning that celebrates the beauty in the world.
© cover photograph: Carl de Keyrer/Magnum Photos
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Lorelei in Brittany The new school year is approaching, and Joachim fears being rejected as usual. Ever since he was a child he has strange visions, which makes him the ideal punching bag. The welcome he receives at his new middle school is icy, so he takes refuge in poetry, sailors’ tales, and walks on the moor. He also meets Stéphane, a mysterious, attractive girl who looks like a gothic princess. One day, Joachim encounters her by surprise, near the ruins of a castle that he has made his hideout. She’s hiding, and she’s afraid. She is being followed by unknown assailants. Joachim brings her to the Green Room, an advantageous place for secrets. This might be the start of a wonderful love story… or the start of a chase that leaves them breathless.
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LUNERR SERIES (2 TITLES)
© cover illustration by Gabriel Gay
Frédéric Faragorn’s life
228 pages
Lunerr, Morgan
revolves around words, stories, and beautiful landscapes. Stories? He tells them, interprets them, directs them in plays, and dreams about them for a long, long time, before diving into writing. He is also the author of Chantelune, a fantasy trilogy published by Bayard a decade ago.
Kerael has been scratched off the map. The city disappeared when it was swallowed up by the earth, and Lunerr finds himself at the head of a troop of escapees. Lunerr, a leader? In spite of the help and the advice from his friend Morgan, Lunerr quickly feels lost and unable to counter the ambitions of certain members of the troop, who have convinced the youngest ones to build a little Kerael in the middle of the desert. Return to their former life, as if nothing happened? Lunerr and Morgan violently oppose this.
A strange, powerful novel, carried along by a pen that majestically knows how to handle a mystery. With ingredients such as religions, dictatorship, and hope, the author delivers a text particularly rich and catchy!
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© cover illustration by Rascal
Carole Fives splits her time between writing, painting, and video making, and has many things in common with the heroine of her latest novel. She has published several novels for adults, notably Quand nous serons heureux and Que nos vies aient l’air d’un film parfait, recently republished by éditions Points-Seuil.
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Live Model Carole has no concrete plan yet. She only knows that she has two weeks, the length of her vacation, to convince her father to give up his project. They’re going to move in with Josiane, her horrible step-mother. That month of July, there are the castles and mild weather of the summer... In spite of the urgent matter, Carole surprises herself to enjoy the vacation. As she takes out her precious sketchbook and begins to draw the silhouettes she sees on the banks of the river, a boy both dark and luminous, like a painting by Caravaggio, approaches. This encounter will change their lives forever...
“It is life, and not our studies, that makes us an artist.” If there is a message in this book, that is it.
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Perhaps it’s because he was a journalist that in his books,
192 pages
Jean-Jacques Greif tells us what no one has recounted up to now: meeting of Albert Einstein, the scatological obsessions of Mozart, or, as in this book, how Christopher Columbus didn’t discover the Americas as we thought he did.
The Return of Christopher Columbus Some think that Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492. The reality is quite different, at least if you believe his original manuscript recently found in British Cabotia.This book is a faithful transcription of that text. Christopher Columbus didn’t depart westward, but rather toward the east. He wasn’t aboard a ship, but on foot, heading across Europe to Poland. And he wasn’t a captain, but the lieutenant of a twenty-year-old adventuress dressed as a boy who didn’t hesitate to use an arquebus in cases of danger. He helped the scholar Copernicus test his theories before embarking an icebreaker on the Baltic Sea to explore the edges of Siberia, selling tiger hides.
“The real Christopher Columbus was a very rigid man. He never changed. My Christopher Columbus is a man who evolves little by little after his great disappointment, thereby becoming more human.”
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Thierry Guilabert is an school counselor. He is also a writer and an uncommon biographer. The figures he has written about include atheist priest Meslier, who inspired Voltaire; Gracchus Babeuf; and the anti-Franco militant Caracremada. Guilabert is also a novelist, inspired by the splendor of nature.
© cover photograph: Bruno Barbey/Magnum Photos
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The Time I Listened to My Mother Threats, cries, blows — it becomes too much that night, and Mila’s mother leads her fourteen-yearold daughter on a wild race. After what seems an interminable trip by bus, train and foot along roads and trails, Mila discovers the scenery of her new life: a hamlet up high in the mountains. It is inhabited only by old ladies, who have chosen to live there as a community. Mila’s mother knows one of them and calls her “nanny”. They set up their lives, harsh yet gentle. Mila studies, reads and discovers unknown forces and an unexpected love for the mountains and their wildness. She surprises herself hoping that this life will continue. She’s wrong. Over in the city, in a fog of alcohol, Mila’s father ponders an atrocious act of vengeance.
A moving and thrilling novel in two parts: one tells a story of escape and relief, the other a tale of stalking and revenge. 24
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Susie Morgenstern
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How to Fall in Love... Without Falling
likes telling love stories more than anything else. But this new novel holds a special place in her heart. The moment she came up with the title a long time ago, she knew that “this would be THE book about love.” And she admits, “I’ve never been so excited to see one of my books published.” And she has written over a hundred!
Annabelle decided that her heart was out of service. During her last year of high school, nothing exists outside of work. Boys? Buddies, simply. And Samuel, the son of the ambassador of the United States who landed in her class, won’t change any of that. Annabelle agrees to spend two hours a day speaking French with him, on the condition that it doesn’t slow her race toward excellence. Annabelle is ambitious and passionate, like the other women in her family. Her mother Lulu is obsessed with her university research. Her grandmother Marguerite won’t leave her stoves until she obtains a second star for her restaurant. All three of them risk falling from very high places. They risk falling in love!
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Unlike Elliott, the young hero of And the Lights Danced in the Sky,
Éric Pessan has not yet observed strange, inexplicable phenomena in the skies. But he perfectly succeeded at expressing the interiority of a young boy who has become unable to communicate, in a novel where realism and hardness are softened by dreams and the imaginary.
© cover photograph: Emma Johnson/Flickr/Getty Images
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And the Lights Danced in the Sky Before, Elliot observed the sky with his father, who taught him about the constellations and the galaxies. Now that his parents are separated, that’s no longer possible. He must go alone, hoping that his mother doesn’t realize what he’s doing. He goes far away from the city, by train, to see the stars. He’ll come back in the morning — he has done this so many times with his father. But this time, he is witness to an inexplicable phenomenon: orange and green lights seem to dance in the sky. Who can he share this with? Where is there someone who will listen to him? Perhaps he will need to go ever farther away and brave the unknown.
In his previous novel, Éric Pessan considered the themes of guilt and remorse. In this one, he turns to solitude and a teen’s inability to communicate.
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N. M. Zimmermann
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Dream Box Jeffrey McLaughan has been prey to the shadows since the age of nine. Shapeless and grayish, they torment him each night, swirling around his bed. His father has turned into a thick brute; his mother has lost her head; his loyal dog has changed into a ferocious beast. Jeffrey is convinced that he’s the only one who sees the shadows, but he’s wrong. A man who experienced the same torments is searching for him. He has crossed the whole country to give him back a little wooden box with the words Dream Box written on it. Once Jeffrey has locked up the shadows, he will be able to sleep in peace. In spite of the temptation, he must never open the box again, or he will find himself in the first of the nine circles of Hell.
wrote her first fantasy story at the age of eight. A dozen novels later, this attraction hasn’t weakened. “I think that horror literature is an excellent way of featuring, of exorcising, and of sublimating the terrors that are found deep down in almost everyone — children as well as adults. I myself started to write horror stories because I was such a coward and I needed to put the bogeyman on paper.”
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