A very good and incredibly creepy story about a boy that gets tangled up in a fairy tale world, with similarities to Labyrinth and the Neverending Story.

I've had it for years, registering it now as I've seen it on a few peoples' wishlists.

On its way to Linguistkris in Germany! :-)

Thank you so much for tagging me with this -- the book looks great, and who can resist "incredibly creepy" (and, better still, "similarities to Labyrinth")? :D

Reserved as a wishlist tag for Tsjara.

This really is a great and amazing book. For the three days I spent reading, it totally disrupted my routine and proved quite unputdownable. It is quite creepy (though I think I might not have found it as scary as some, judging by the journal entries the other copies around here have garnered), but I enjoyed the psychology behind it (or maybe just Conolly's general attitude?) so much that it kept the horror at bay.
I find it hard to say anything more about it without spoilering horribly, so I'll just finish by saying that as fairy tale reworkings go, I thought this was marvellous. I've put the German version on my wishlist so that I can share it with some friends who don't read English, and I'd probably prefer re-reading this to watching any amount of Once Upon a Time or similar (though I might still prefer Labyrinth or The Company of Wolves, which add so much in terms of aesthetics). Also, almost twenty years after I last enjoyed Stephen King, I might now be seriously curious to tackle the Dark Tower series.

In the mail to Assendelft.

Thanks so much linguistkris for fulfilling one of my oldest wishes! I love fairy tales (and retellings) especially if there is some creepiness, and this one sounds rather intriguing. Really looking forward to read it. :D

I really enjoyed this book and couldn't put it down! The 'real' world is set somewhere during WWII in England. David, the protagonist, struggles when his mother dies and his father remarries. They move to a new house, and strange things start to happen... Then during a bombing the protagonist slips from this world to another where he meets all kinds of characters from different fairy tales. The story is quite dark at times which I like.
I was a bit confused when it felt like the ending was near, but there were a lot of pages left... Turns out there is a whole collection of fairy tales at the end (which I started to read but abandoned after a few :p).


I will take this with me to a friend who likes fairy tale retellings as well.

Edit 8 July 2019: Released it at the BC meeting in Castricum (was too slow with making a release note 😆)

Found at the meeting in the Netherlands