If you like your plots and characters outlandish, your language somewhat archaic, your worlds steam-powered, your orphans locked in dungeons, and your villains horrible child-hating adults, you will like this book.
When the genteelly-impoverished Sylvia goes to live with spirited Bonnie, villainess Miss. Slighcarp uses the absence of Bonnie’s parents to dismiss the servants, burn wills, and terrorize the children. The book’s title comes from the fact that the children live in a town where wolves roam after dark and will attack people and trains. Surprisingly, the wolves are not very prominent in the story.
Published in 1963, this book fits in well with the recent mock-gothic Children’s genre that includes the “Unfortunate Events” series or the Eddie Dickens Trilogy.
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