The Little People

 

Published :

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1967

New York, Simon and Schuster, 1967

 

Book Details :

Book Details:

Hardback edition published by Hodder and Stoughton, 1967. First edition.

Sleeve notes:

The legacy itself was unexpected, because Bridget Chauncey's father had severed connection with his Irish relations long ago, and its main item more unusual still. What could she do with an old house in the middle of a bog in the wilds of Mayo? A house with a room full of perfectly made doll's houses.

It might be fun, she decided, to run it as a hotel for a season, before she got married. Her fiancée disagreed, but he came all the same. So did Mat, a young Dublin lawyer, the Selkirks from America, with their endless bickering and their quiet, loving daughter, and the Morwitzes whose relationship was stranger still. And there were those who were there already: the Little People.

How did they come to be there? What were they? What strange powers did they have? In a single night, Bridget and the others find the answer to these questions--and the answers, too, to the questions of their own lives. They learn what the Little People are and, in terror or joy, come to know what they are themselves.

Book Source:

Solihull Libraries

 

 

Book Details:

Paperback edition published by Sphere Books Ltd, 1982 reprint.

Sleeve notes:

THEY WEREN'T GHOSTS. THEY WEREN'T DEVILS. BUT THEY WERE THE MOST TERRIFYING BEINGS EVER TO HAUNT THE IRISH COUNTRYSIDE...

Daniel Gillow and Bridget Chauncey knew they were letting themselves in for a lot when they look over the old castle in the remote Irish countryside. But they didn't know they were letting themselves in for the most terrifying experience of their lives. Mysterious traces of sinister night visitors ... hints of some horrific link between the castle and the crazed experiments of a Nazi concentration camp doctor.., an icy atmosphere of mounting tension ... these were the main strands in the web of eerie terror that reached out to ensnare the castle's inhabitants in its deadly grip...

Book Source:

Terry Jenkins