Fen Runners
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A mystery from the past is hauled from the depths of the icy Norfolk "fens"—a marshy area of eastern England—in this chilling tale of an encounter with something very sinister It's wintertime in the moody, atmospheric mists of East Anglia, and while diving into the cold, murky water of a lake, Kit and Joe find an elaborate patten—a Fen word for ice skate. Its return to the surface is not widely welcomed, and, as it emerges, the story of how the skate became detached from its owner 50 years ago leads the boys deep into a chilling mystery whose conclusion is yet to be played out. What could have been surging up through the ice that day half a century past that so frightened young Tom Townley? Why has Tom suffered constantly from nightmares and visions of beings who make no noise, but so menacingly watch? Who are they watching now—and why?
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John Gordon is the author of many other novels, including The Giant Under the Snow. His tales of horror and the supernatural are often set in The Fens, an environment he found mysterious and inspirational in his own adolescence, and contain elements of East Anglian folklore.
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"Great atmosphere, solid characters, a timeless sense of adventure. . . . The writing is as crisp and frosty as the fens it describes, and every shred of imagery stands out almost hyper-realistically in the reader's mind." —Bookbag
"Gordon's gift for conjuring menace from the simplest of scenes is undimmed, and the shivery scenes will make teens quite glad to go back to school." —Times