F. E. Higgins has been fascinated by the macabre ever since seeing a ghostly apparition as a child. Nowadays F. E. travels the lands that these books describe, collecting strange artefacts and the even stranger secrets and stories behind them. THE BLACK BOOK OF SECRETS, THE BONE MAGICIAN, THE EYEBALL COLLECTOR and THE LUNATIC'S CURSE document the results of these eerie explorations and have sold all over the world. When not in pursuit of a story, F.E. may be found in a haunted house in Kent.
F. E. Higgins was born in England but raised in Ireland. She lives and writes in a house that dates back to the fifteenth century, in a small village in rural Kent. THE BLACK BOOK OF SECRETS was her debut novel.
Gr 5-8-This title is a "polyquel" to Higgins's other novels. It is a dark tale set in a fictional town reminiscent of Victorian England. At the center of Oppum Oppidulum is a lake, and at the center of the lake is an island where the Asylum for the Peculiar and Bizarre is located. No one has ever escaped. This is where Rex Grammaticus's father is sent after a harrowing incident of violence against his wife. Twelve-year-old Rex sets out to solve the mystery behind his father's incarceration and save himself from an equally horrifying fate. He is convinced that his father is not insane and that his stepmother is to blame for the man's irrational behavior. The Lunatic's Curse has a large cast of twisted characters and a winding plot that will keep readers delightfully immersed in macabre adventure.-Mindy Whipple, West Jordan Library, UT (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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