A fast-moving, eerie...tale set on Halloween night. Eight costumed boys running to meet their friend Pipkin at the haunted house outside town encounter instead the huge and cadaverous Mr. Moundshroud. As Pipkin scrambles to join them, he is swept away by a dark Something, and Moundshroud leads the boys on the tail of a kite through time and space to search the past for their friend and the meaning of Halloween. After witnessing a funeral procession in ancient Egypt, cavemen discovering fire, Druid rites, the persecution of witches in the Dark Ages, and the gargoyles of Notre Dame, they catch up with the elusive Pipkin in the catacombs of Mexico, where each boy gives one year from the end of his life to save Pipkin's. Enhanced by appropriately haunting black-and-white drawings. --Booklist
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN-10
0553512714
ISBN-13
9780553512717
eBay Product ID (ePID)
214282689
Product Key Features
Author
Ray Bradbury
Format
Library Binding,Cloth over Boards, Hardback
Language
English
Topic
Children's Fiction
Additional Product Features
Illustrator(s)
Gris Grimly
Author Biography
Ray Bradbury Lives in Los Angeles.Joseph Mugnaini Lives in California.