The Pit - Softcover

Pilling, Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007114702 ISBN 13: 9780007114702

Publisher: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks, 2001

Synopsis

The Pit is a powerful story, encompassing plague-ridden London, ghosts from the past and present, and one boy’s determination to solve unanswered questions and cure an old man’s terror.

When an old man comes to stay with Oliver’s parents, Oliver is astonished by the man’s acute phobia of fleas and rats. Determined to discover the source of the old man’s terror, Oliver is drawn to a demolition site, where workmen are suffering appalling mental injuries. Oliver realises that something of enormous, terrifying power has been unearthed by the workmen but before he can find out more, a terrified scream comes from the cellar of his house. Thinking the screams to be from the old man, Oliver plunges into the cellar... to find himself in plague-ridden London, trapped in the body of a boy, surrounded by plague victims.

About this title

Review:

“Highly recommended reading for boys and girls.”
Tribune
“Horror/Fantasy readers should relish it.”
Books for Keeps

From the Back Cover:

'Rats? I can assure you, Dr Verney,' Mrs Wright informed him frostily, 'I've seen nothing like that in this house.'

When an old man with a rat phobia comes to live in the boarding house belonging to Oliver's parents, a train of horrifying events is set in motion. Oliver is sure that the old demolition site nearby holds something of enormous power. But what can it be?

Then Oliver hears and anguished cry from the cellar, and is suddenly drawn into the nightmare world of the past. Can he survive the Great Plague and resolve the events tormenting the present?

"Horror/fantasy readers should relish it."
BOOKS FOR KEEPS

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0007114702
• ISBN 13: 9780007114702
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208