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The dark missions of Edgar Brim / Shane Peacock.

by Peacock, Shane.

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Tundra Books of Northern New York, [2016]

Nightmares -- Fiction.

Orphans -- Fiction.

Boarding schools -- Scotland -- Fiction.

Scotland -- Fiction.

London (England) -- Fiction.

Peacock, Shane. Dark missions of Edgar Brim series ; book 1.

9781770496989 (hc.)

339 p. ; 22 cm.

"Edgar Brim is a sensitive orphan who, exposed to horror stories from his father as a young child, is afraid of almost everything and suffers from nightly terrors. His stern new guardian, Mr. Thorne, sends the boy to a gloomy school in Scotland where his dark demons only seem to worsen and he is bullied and ridiculed for his fears. But years later, when sixteen-year-old Edgar finds a journal belonging to his novelist father, he becomes determined to confront his nightmares and the bullies who taunt him. After the horrific death of a schoolmate, Edgar becomes involved with an eccentric society at the urging of a mysterious professor who believes that monsters from famous works of literature are real and whose mandate is to find and destroy these creatures. With the aid of a rag-tag crew of friends, the fear-addled teen sets about on his dark mission, one that begins in the cemetery on the bleak Scottish moors and ends in a spine-chilling climax on the stage of the Royal Lyceum Theatre in London."--Page [2] of book jacket.

Grades: 7-up. SLJ.

Gothic fiction.

Horror fiction.

Canadian fiction.

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