Groosham Grange

Paperback | 8 September 1994 | Edition Number 1

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Expelled from his posh public school, David Eliot is packed off to Groosham Grange, whose prospectus promises strong discipline and only one day's holiday a year. The schools location is Skrull Island, so remote that it's not, even on the map. On the train ride down, David meets two fellow novice pupils, Jill and Jeffrey, and a vicar so affected by the mere mention of the name "Groosham Grange" that he suffers a heart attack! The pupils are met at the station by the gruesome Gregor and taken to the island on the boat of the chilling Captain Bloodbath. Worse is to follow. The school's assistant headmaster, Mr Kilgraw, insists that his new pupil sign his name in the registration book in blood - his own blood! This is just the first of many weird happenings that prompt a host of disturbing questions: Why are the staff so creepy? What's the significance of the black rings everyone wears? Why do the other pupils all have false names? Where do they vanish to at night? And, most important of all, how on earth can David get away - alive? Anthony Horowitz is also the author of "Granny", "The Falcon's Malteser" and "South by South East". "Groosham Grange" won the 1990 Lancashire Children's Book Award.

Industry Reviews

Twelve-year-old David has exasperated his parents with his underachieving ways for the last time. As a lucky coincidence, they receive a letter inviting David to attend Groosham Grange just as he is expelled from another school. They're thrilled, especially since Groosham touts its reputation for straightening out malcontents like David. He and two others he meets on the train there are immediately suspicious of it, however. The school's pupils are eerily, vacantly adoring of the sinister old building and its creepy staff. The mystery deepens one night when David awakens to see them all trooping off into the library, where they vanish. Bursts of dark slapstick humor (such as David's dad accidentally stabbing his mom in the opening chapter) mix oddly with its light horror plot, and unsubtle foreshadowing stunts the suspense. Fans of Horowitz will form a natural readership for what looks to be the first in a new series, but whether they will find this as satisfying as his more carefully developed works is questionable. (Horror. 9-12) (Kirkus Reviews)

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