![]() Oppel is on fine storytelling form as he sweeps readers into a truly spectacular adventure full of chills, thrills, spooks, stormy seas, and the stirrings of first love. Now Gabe and his friends must find a way to stop Viker before they all become lost souls. But the Order has disappeared and Viker’s ghost is growing ever stronger. malevolent spirits like Viker, the ghost responsible for their deaths. Rebecca reveals that her father was a member of the Order, a secret society devoted to protecting the world from ‘the wakeful and wicked dead’. The true story of her death is far more terrifying than any ghost tale Gabe has told. until he finds himself face to face with Rebecca Strand. He tries to make it scary enough to satisfy the tourists, but he doesn’t actually believe in ghosts. Gabe tells this story every day when he gives the ghost tour on Toronto Island. ![]() Whether they fell, or were maybe pushed, remains a mystery but their ghosts haunt the lighthouse to this day. ![]() ![]() Rebecca Strand was just sixteen when she and her father fell to their deaths from the top of the Gibraltar Point Lighthouse in 1839. Canadian-born Kenneth Oppel – award-winning author of an astonishingly varied output of stunning novels – enthrals readers with this heart-stopping, high-stakes and excitingly original ghost story which has all the perfect vibes for the approach of Halloween. When the guide at a haunted lighthouse accidentally awakens the ghost of a murdered girl, he and his friends are swept up into a dark mystery that threatens not only them but the whole of mankind. ![]()
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