by Garth Nix · HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007201389
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«The Creature in the Case» is the fantasy novella by Garth Nix, published by HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks in paperback (109 pages, in English).
Six months after Abhorsen, Nicholas Sayre is still recovering from his encounter with the Destroyer and longs to return to the Old Kingdom. His chance comes with a commission from his uncle Edward: to spend a weekend at a country house. The place hides secrets and a relic of the Old Kingdom too far from the Wall for its power to awaken. Someone seeks to free it.
It is entry 3.5 of the Abhorsen saga. World Book Day edition published on March 7, 2005.
Recommended for readers aged 12 to 16, especially fans of the Abhorsen saga and of Garth Nix's young adult fantasy.
Garth Richard Nix is an Australian writer who specialises in children's and young adult fantasy novels, notably the Old Kingdom, Seventh Tower and Keys to the Kingdom series. He has frequently been asked if his name is a pseudonym, to which he has responded, "I guess people ask me because it sounds like the perfect name for a writer of fantasy. However, it is my real name."
