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Shadowland

by Peter Straub

When magic stops being a trick, two boys discover the terror waiting in Shadowland.

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About Shadowland

At a private school in Arizona, Tom Flanagan and Del Nightingale forge a friendship while enduring bullying and fear. Del introduces Tom to magic, but during a summer at his uncle’s lakeside estate, Shadowland, their hobby becomes far darker and more dangerous than either boy imagined.

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Spice
None
Darkness
Dark
Pacing
Slow
Content warnings
  • violence
  • emotional-abuse
  • physical-abuse
  • torture
  • forced-institutionalization
  • fire-injury
  • death
  • animal cruelty
  • animal death

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