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By Ray
Bradbury, Illustrated by Joseph Mugnaini
Juvenile Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror, Halloween, 5th Grade to 9th Grade
Yearling
Paperback, 160 pages, Illustrated
September
1999
$5.50
0375803017
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“A fast-moving, eerie...tale set
on Halloween night. Eight costumed boys running to meet their
friend Pipkin at the haunted house outside town encounter
instead the huge and cadaverous Mr. Moundshroud. As Pipkin
scrambles to join them, he is swept away by a dark Something,
and Moundshroud leads the boys on the tail of a kite through
time and space to search the past for their friend and the
meaning of Halloween. After witnessing a funeral procession
in ancient Egypt, cavemen discovering fire, Druid rites, the
persecution of witches in the Dark Ages, and the gargoyles
of Notre Dame, they catch up with the elusive Pipkin in the
catacombs of Mexico, where each boy gives one year from the
end of his life to save Pipkin’s. Enhanced by appropriately
haunting black-and-white drawings.”—Booklist
Ray Bradbury lives in Los Angeles.
Joseph Mugnaini lives in California.
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