Earthfasts

by William Mayne

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0007DKI1Q
• Release Date: January 1967
• Publisher: Dutton
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Not Free SF Reader

Following the beat of the drum can lead to monsters. Two boys out wandering run into a drummer boy from another time, and discover that sometihng has woken up creatures that really you wouldn't want to run into, and could happily leave them with King Arthur and his Knights, among others.

Stunning Young-Adult British Fantasy Great for Adults

EARTHFASTS is, despite all the horror novels out there, the most truly and subtly terrifying book I have ever read.Two modern British boys are caught up in a growing wave of ancient magic in the English countryside. Standing stones walk; strange things are heard in the earth and air; a pale-flamed candle gives them disturbing visions that draw them further from the world they know.In the caves beneath, a King sleeps until his people need him again. But a curious drummer-boy, from the garrison of a castle long since in ruins, has disturbed the King's rest too soon. Can our heroes set the world right before it is destroyed?One thing I really liked about this book is that the risen magics are never fully explained and named. Instead of a pat answer to everything, we have archetypal patterns and echoes, mysteries and hidden things. Fear and wonder, not simple explanations, are the core of this fantastic book.