by Joan Aiken · FisicalBook · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423927869
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«12 relatos inquietantes» is an anthology of mystery stories by Joan Aiken and other authors, in paperback, 256 pages, in Spanish.
The volume brings together twelve stories signed by Joan Aiken, Jan Mark, Marjorie Darke and other authors. They feature Aunt Avril, whose doll workshop hides a secret; the mechanical slaves that Miss Hooting bequeaths to the Armitages; a guest who grows poisonous mushrooms; and a parrot and a dog that disappear without explanation. Stories with an unsettling atmosphere and strange characters that push the reader beyond reality.
Austral Juvenil collection. Original title: The Magnet Book of Sinister Stories.
Recommended for readers aged 11 and up, especially for those who enjoy mystery and short stories.
Joan Delano Aiken was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children's alternative history novels. In 1999 she was awarded an MBE for her services to children's literature. For The Whispering Mountain, published by Jonathan Cape in 1968, she won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a book award judged by a panel of British children's writers, and she was a commended runner-up for the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British writer. She won an Edgar Allan Poe Award (1972) for Night Fall.
