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“Really? Whole trees?” She sorted through the postcards again. “Sometimes we’ll play Jill and the Beanstalk. Someone will grab hold of one of the saplings at the edge of the woods and we’ll see how high Fiona can get it to go while we’re riding it.” She arrived at the photo she’d been hunting <strong>for</strong> and tapped it with her finger. “That was the record,” she said proudly. “Twenty meters.” “You guys get pretty bored around here, huh?” She moved to pinch me again but I blocked her hand. I’m no expert on girls, but when one tries to pinch you four times, I’m pretty sure that’s flirting.
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Copyright © 2011 by Ransom Riggs A
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Cover Title Page Copyright Epigraph
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father would infect me with some in
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suit of clothes with no person in t
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I stared at the last photo as Grand
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fight, but instead he just said,
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I spent the last afternoon of Befor
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* * * Wading through the diapers, S
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When I asked my dad why Grandpa was
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e encouraging but that nearly snapp
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to me. “Right at the flamingo org
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subdivision, Century Woods. Accordi
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danger or blood, but I couldn’t f
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and I couldn’t speak to tell him,
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elieved him, and neither had anyone
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Even my best and only friend Ricky
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eaction. “I don’t see anything
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cross-examining my subconscious, lo
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that week. I woke up screaming and
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just for me to find. Inside were th
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delusions that would take years of
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out, pouring herself some chardonna
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like showing off to accept such a l
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I got up to leave, afraid I might s
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As promised, the writer had enclose
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* * * As you can imagine, convincin
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on a big adventure!” I found her
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Fog closed around us like a blindfo
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oofs, lined a small grid of muddy g
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was unlikely to be a four-star mint
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“Right here,” he said, tapping
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I’d seen this look on his face be
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fake gold chains. He couldn’t hav
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plow through a field of marshy gras
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come. My grandfather had described
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kitchen was a science experiment go
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“So how was the house?” “Tras
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“It was a lot more than just one
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how much you worshipped him.” He
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thought of him that way. He’s our
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come back tomorrow, however—”
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ut one of them unplugged. Living on
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I felt numb, disconnected. It was t
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Knox.” “I wonder if it doesn’
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I thought maybe I’d heard him wro
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upon its malevolent shape—the way
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peering at me through cracks and kn
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I grabbed it by the sides and pulle
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sweat in the process. I finally mad
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ut organs. Brains. Hearts. Lungs. E
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was certainly a boulder made from p
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that my fear was irrational—it wa
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The girl’s expression soured. I w
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een lost to the ages. Here lies bog
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I unfolded myself from the cramped
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home as soon as possible. If he hes
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the hell was going on without a roo
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what?” “About the house—about
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on my arm and her knife at my side.
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and gross that I finally had to sit
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titled “Cairnholm under Siege.”
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sneaking around the back, any hope
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Page 178 and 179: “We have to get out of here,” I
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Page 186 and 187: Kev was manning the bar again and r
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Page 191 and 192: Morning brought rain and wind and f
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Page 203 and 204: When the laughter had died down, I
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stood up to go to the bar. * * * A
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“That’s because I’m not going
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it was connected to a pipe that ran
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numbed out. “I want to, but I don
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here. Said he couldn’t stand it a
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wailed again. “Leave them alone!
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secret?” Emma gasped. “Seduce?
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animals.
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nowhere. “Alma? Is that you?” M
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Henceforth, you will travel beyond
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even if it can, it shouldn’t. But
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“Then you are more observant than
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When I couldn’t bear to look at t
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stutters. “But I—I can’t—my
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On Tuesday night, most of what I th
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wasn’t sulking in silence he woul
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to do something, the children sank
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Wednesday, when Martin failed to op
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fisherman said. “Storm that’s r
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spent tracking down common victims
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going?” “Perhaps not. But if yo
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like Santa Claus and BLAM!” He fi
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outside the loop. I was about to as
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dropped and the temperature fell an
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“He’s pretty far gone,” said
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gaps in the walls. He said somethin
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“Stay where you are!” the man s
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“What’s happening?” Emma said
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een looking for: a third option. A
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tongues touched him on the cheek, a
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“Oh god, you’re right,” said
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We slipped through a door that was
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eath was pressed out of us. We grip
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down the cairn mound into the bog,
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killed it.” “That’s brilliant
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Bronwyn snatched the photo from Hug
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as her hair. Immediately she began
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ehinds, little avalanches of sand p
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“Look out!” I shouted, but it w
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“Wyn, he’ll shoot you!” Emma
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was running toward the lighthouse.
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“What if the whole thing comes do
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to look at me. His face was a stubb
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it once, and look what happened. Yo
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empty my mind and focus on steadyin
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I grabbed her and shouted in her fa
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depthless and blank. He was a wight
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“That’s not good,” Enoch said
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hasn’t the changeover come?” Mi
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When it was done, he staggered back
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fine and very old, and big enough t
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had been born but their light not y
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“Dad!” I wondered for a moment
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“Did we help?” Olive asked from
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We set out for the ridge. At the sp
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as forget-me-nots, we made one last
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All the pictures in this book are a
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to tha
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