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Cover Title Page Copyright Epigraph Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Chapter Ten Chapter Eleven Photograph Credit Acknowledgments Contents
Page 4 and 5: Copyright © 2011 by Ransom Riggs A
Page 8 and 9: I had just come to accept that my l
Page 10 and 11: on an island where the sun shined e
Page 12: skinny arms. “Trust me, he was. I
Page 17 and 18: explained. “He had two mouths, se
Page 19: of endless summers and guardian ang
Page 22 and 23: from the tower’s foundation. In a
Page 24: een subtle at first, like forgettin
Page 27 and 28: which are real jobs only if you hap
Page 29 and 30: naked in the street, wielding a hun
Page 31 and 32: nerves. The quiet made me anxious.
Page 33 and 34: thigh-high palmetto spears and nets
Page 35 and 36: “Told me what?” I said, choking
Page 38 and 39: I spent the months following my gra
Page 40 and 41: It was totally insulting.
Page 42 and 43: “Whatever, I’m just being strai
Page 44 and 45: various subdisciplines of psycholog
Page 46 and 47: this Emerson lived in Circle Villag
Page 48 and 49: claimed), his big band and swing 78
Page 55 and 56: Kneeling there on my grandfather’
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I could not have been less in the m
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When he finished, he grinned and st
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Sunshine Skyway bridge, everything
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The letter was handwritten on fine,
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Is., Cymru, UK. UK—that was Brita
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most important factor was Dr. Golan
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said shaddap, ya dozy bastards, I
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caught me leaning over the rail to
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“The old what?” he said, squint
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visible from my bedroom window. “
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ealized it wasn’t just my grandfa
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home. He frowned at me, then leaned
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Considering that they didn’t even
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whispered something to Worm. Worm w
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less likely that I would need it. C
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Once I’d hopped and tripped and f
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“It wasn’t me who gave up!” h
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ever was. I don’t know—there wa
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light on the empty house and the wh
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“That’s insane.” “I suppose
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“Just feeling a little light-head
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themselves. Martin cleared his thro
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he’d endured, to war, and more de
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unlikely—or the person who wrote
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It was an almost-too-perfect mornin
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everything was just as the children
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house had been burned up and blown
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up his secrets, I would damn well p
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* * * The basement was a meandering
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you’d find in any old family albu
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It couldn’t have been a coinciden
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cradling the same strange light bet
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I hurdled fallen logs and ducked lo
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I could already predict Dr. Golan
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twisting fog that, for me, had come
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light, eyeing it like a jeweler.
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edraggled American boy who was not
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“I told you, my grandfather—”
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grave to find them—but that was t
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Millard hummed as he flipped the pa
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We crossed the street as casually a
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everywhere. Then she did something
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When the last cottages had disappea
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I turned to the window and gazed ou
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dressed head to toe in black, her h
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a booming laugh. “What undiluted
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“I hope that doesn’t offend you
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needless, obscene—but I think it
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“There are peculiars all over the
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the last, oh, seventy years that we
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“What about the boys in the pictu
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“Just to make sure I understand,
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was left with the choice of wearing
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to the ceiling. So the rest of us w
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of the months and years if the days
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seemed to come from everywhere. Now
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holes in the clouds. The concussion
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The first thing I heard when I coul
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e because of this.” And then she
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days alone in that old house is rea
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on him earlier. That was twice now
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through its shifting muck, trying t
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the stage. “I’m so happy you’
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Bronwyn finished dragging the rock
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“Really? Whole trees?” She sort
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turned morose at any mention of his
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When the laughter had died down, I
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went to sleep in its own filth!’
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home, she pretended to pout. “At
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“Jacob! I’ve been looking for y
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—so instead I took a calculated r
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We left the farmer to ponder his sl
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Hoping to duck another lecture, I g
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“I don’t understand,” I said.
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“But it’s not as if they’re c
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squirming as if he were trying to g
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they weren’t simply bumping into
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whistle. He mimed running a hand al
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etter!” Bronwyn began to cry in e
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get all high an’ mighty with me,
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I had to stare at the last picture
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I thought about it. I wasn’t real
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have any ‘game’ to ‘horn in
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sound too certain. I knew exactly w
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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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