Sign-In
Cart
The First Fire of Halloween
Paperback
Publisher Price: $18.00
ISBN13: 9781068754517
Publisher: Oisin McGann
Published: Nov 13 2024
Pages: 246
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
Thief. Trickster. Murderer.
Humans have forgotten why they once feared the púca.
But he will make them remember.
In the small Irish town of Athboy, there is a hill where the first fire was once lit each year to mark the beginning of Samhain. Bonfires would then be lit across the country, launching a festival to celebrate the last harvest before the harsh months of winter. On the night when the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead was at its thinnest, it was believed that the spirits of the dead wandered the land.
In recent years, that fire has been lit once more every Halloween night, and thousands of people come to celebrate.
Jamie Sheldon is an American girl visiting the town with her parents for an archaeological dig. Rone O'Callaghan lives on a farm near Tlachtga, the ancient site on the Hill of Ward. Both teenagers are close by when a local man is murdered. The circumstances suggest the killer may be acting out some ancient ritual.
The truth is even more macabre. This Halloween, as humans wander the streets wearing monster masks, there is a monster among them wearing a human mask. The most treacherous of all the ancient faerie folk . . .
The shape-changing púca.
Also from
McGann, Oisín
Also in
Young Adult Fiction
The Odyssey: A Graphic Novel: (A Modern Visual Adaptation of Homer's Epic Tale of Greek Mythology for Young Adults)
Hinds, Gareth
Paperback
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (National Book Award Winner)
Alexie, Sherman
Paperback
Piper at the Gates of Dusk: (A Young Adult Dystopian Adventure of Survival, Identity, and a Divided Future World)
Ness, Patrick
Hardcover
Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories
Gansworth, Eric
Smith, Cynthia Leitich
Hart, Kate
Hardcover
Once Upon a Broken Heart Collector's Edition: [Limited Stenciled Edge Edition]
Garber, Stephanie
Hardcover