It's 1985 and the Satanic panic has set in.
Alice Ayre sees things, strange little girls, characters from 1980s TV shows. Sometimes the visions talk to her. Sometimes they tell her things. An outcast, everyone in her small Southern town thinks she and her mother are very strange, maybe even witches.
Judge Hand, a figure both feared and revered, knows something of Alice's past. He is investigating the Satanic underground in the town. He wants to burn all the witches.
Alice will have to save herself and everyone she cares about but what if she's the thing she fears the most?
Autorentext
Cynthia Lee lives in Alabama with her husband, son and a very old cat. After a lifelong love affair with books for young people (and young at heart people), she decided to write stories of her own. Penny Dreadful is her first novel.
Klappentext
It's 1985 and the Satanic panic has set in. Alice Ayre sees things, little girls who disappeared years before, characters from 1980s TV shows. Sometimes the visions talk to her. Sometimes they tell her things. An outcast, everyone in her small Southern town thinks she and her mother are witches. Judge Hand, a figure both feared and revered, knows something of Alice's past. He is investigating the Satanic underground in the town. He wants to burn all the witches.
Alice will have to save herself but what if she's the thing she fears the most?