The House of Dead Maids
A Chilling Prelude to "Wuthering Heights"
Square Fish
Available: 09/27/11
5.63 x 8.25 · 176 pages
Ages 12-18 years
9780312551551
CDN $23.99
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Tabby Aykroyd thought she was coming to the dusty mansion of Seldom House to be a maid, but she's not being asked to clean or cook. Then one day a man, presumably the owner of the house, shows up with a small boy. The boy insists he's the master of the house, and curiously no one disputes him. Tabby is to be his playmate. The young master is a savage little creature, but the house itself contains far worse: Scores of dead maids and masters haunt Seldom House. Tabby is terrified for her life and the life of her young charge. But why isn't the young master afraid?
Clare B. Dunkle worked for years as a librarian. She lives with her family in Germany. Her first book, The Hollow Kingdom, won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award and was named a Publishers Weekly Flying Start," a Bank Street College of Education Best Book, and a Locus Magazine Best YA Book. Patrick Arrasmithlives in California. He is the illustrator of The House of Dead Maids ."
