Here amidst a world of talking statues, mating books and even a white rabbit are dangers of a different kind, monsters which threaten to consume him.Ĭraig Herbertson has created a marvellous fantastical adventure with a deep and dark undercurrent in School.
Jean finds himself in a school populated by a completely different set of problems. His siters disappearance, which may be linked to a string of child abductions in the area, is the straw that breaks young Jean, sending him spiralling into an alternative world. Left at an English school while his mother attends his fathers deathbed, it’s only his sister Michelle, or Papillion who he can really relate to. Jean is half french which already sets him aside as an outsider at school, creating classroom difficulties but these are the least of his problems.
School: The Seventh Silence follows the adventures of Jean Deforte.
Craig Herbertsons’ short stories such as New Teacher, Spanish Suite and Leibniz’s Last Puzzle have been regular highlights of recent Black Book of Horror’s and other anthologies, so I was delighted to get hold of a copy of his first and to date only novel length work.
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