A Child's Treasury of Golden Afternoons

Once upon a time, a very bad man encoded very bad secrets into the charming illustrations of a book of charming stories. Wake the pictures, and you will see. [This book houses a numen - a truth so powerful it can perhaps believe itself.]

Lord Jacob Gristwood: surgeon, ethnologist, philanthropist. There is no proof that he ever kept children in hutches beneath his bed. There is no proof he vivisected cats at dinner with his pen-knife. The Suppression Bureau keeps its secrets.

'Here is your paint,' whispered the Wolf to the Pale Girl. 'Here is your knife-for-scraping. And here is your face.' 1 Return to library