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Not for me, but would appeal to the steampunk crowd.
A single mother with two children accepts a position keeping house for an eccentric, wealthy hermit. This man, who just goes by Lazarus, lives by the sea in a great house filled with his inventions: automatons. Some open doors like a butler; some seem to fly across the ceiling on wires - the whole thing is uber creepy. Just when the family starts settling in, the daughter's new friend goes missing and is found murdered. Could the family's arrival to the seaside village have unleashed a curse?
The Watcher in the Shadows is the last of Zafón's Niebla series, which is simply a collection of spooky standalone novels for children/teens. Only three novels were completed before the author's tragic passing in 2020, all set on a different continent in the 1930's with a terrifically heavy atmosphere and supernatural theme. Not nearly as romantic and lyrical as his Cemetery of Forgotten Books, but each book delivers an appealing story from a master of time and place.
A single mother with two children accepts a position keeping house for an eccentric, wealthy hermit. This man, who just goes by Lazarus, lives by the sea in a great house filled with his inventions: automatons. Some open doors like a butler; some seem to fly across the ceiling on wires - the whole thing is uber creepy. Just when the family starts settling in, the daughter's new friend goes missing and is found murdered. Could the family's arrival to the seaside village have unleashed a curse?
The Watcher in the Shadows is the last of Zafón's Niebla series, which is simply a collection of spooky standalone novels for children/teens. Only three novels were completed before the author's tragic passing in 2020, all set on a different continent in the 1930's with a terrifically heavy atmosphere and supernatural theme. Not nearly as romantic and lyrical as his Cemetery of Forgotten Books, but each book delivers an appealing story from a master of time and place.