Shadows Of The Silver Screen

A mysterious filmmaker approaches The Penny Dreadful with a proposal to turn Montgomery Flinch's sinister stories into motion pictures. Filming begins but is plagued by a series of strange and frightening events. Can Penny uncover the filmmaker's dark secret before it's too late? It's 1900. The era of the silent movie has begun and the silver screen is casting its hypnotic shadow over audiences everywhere. Penny Tredwell, thirteen-year-old owner of The Penny Dreadful, is looking forward to seeing one of the magazine's spine-tingling tales of terror brought to life by the camera. Filming starts at a remote manor house on Dartmoor and everything goes well at first. But as fiction bleeds into fact, the actors don't seem to be playing parts any more. The characters have taken them over and the sinister story is becoming reality. The end of the story is dark and dangerous. Is that how Penny's story will end, too? Step into the past in this spine-tingling historical adventure from award-winning author Christopher Edge. "A writer of genuine originality" - Guardian Penelope Tredwell is the feisty thirteen-year-old orphan heiress of the bestselling magazine, The Penny Dreadful. Her masterly tales of the macabre are gripping Victorian Britain, even if no one knows she's the author. One day a mysterious filmmaker approaches The Penny Dreadful with a proposal to turn their sinister stories into motion pictures. Filming begins but is plagued by a series of strange and frightening events. As Penelope is drawn into the mysteries surrounding the filming she soon finds herself trapped in a nightmare penned by her own hand... Can Penny uncover the filmmaker's dark secret before it's too late? A suspenseful historical adventure series with a supernatural twist! "The feisty and courageous Penelope makes the perfect heroine for an adventure packed with exciting twists and turns" - BookTrust Check out these other brilliant books from Christopher Edge: Black Hole Cinema Club Escape Room Twelve Minutes to Midnight The Jamie Drake Equation