With the help of Merriman Lyon and the mysterious Lady, Will must look for the six Signs of the Light and only when he has collected all six will he be able to ward off the powers of the Dark. Stepping outside into a world transformed by snow, Will quickly discovers that it has been transformed in other ways as well – the houses and roads of his own time have disappeared, to be replaced by the dense forest of an earlier age.Īs Will begins to explore this strange, enchanted land, he learns for the first time that he is one of the Old Ones, destined to join the people of the Light in their ongoing battle against the forces of the Dark. He gets his wish because snow does soon begin to fall…and keeps on falling, covering the landscape in a thick blanket of white as far as the eye can see. The novel opens with Will Stanton celebrating his eleventh birthday on Midwinter Day – 21st December – and wishing it would snow. The Dark is Rising, published in 1973, is set in the fictional English village of Huntercombe during the Christmas period.
They are linked by the character of Merriman Lyon and the same overarching theme, but otherwise they are quite separate stories. The first thing to say is that although Over Sea, Under Stone was the first to be published, I don’t think it’s essential to read it before starting this one. The second book, The Dark is Rising, sounded appropriately dark, so I decided to read it for this year’s R.I.P event.
Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.Since reading Susan Cooper’s Over Sea, Under Stone earlier this year, I have been looking forward to reading the rest of her The Dark is Rising sequence, especially after I was told that Over Sea, Under Stone is usually considered the weakest of the six books.
Vintage Children's Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their lives. Includes exclusive material: in the Backstory you can read an interview with the author and discover the ancient beliefs that inspired the story. He is the last of the Old Ones and the power to vanquish the evil magic of the Dark lies within him. Because Will is not the ordinary boy he always thought he was.
Then on Midwinter Day Will wakes up to a different world - silent, covered in snow and ancient forest, a world of another time. But for eleven-year-old Will Stanton something sinister has begun, inching round his subconscious, shouting silent warnings he can't decipher. It's Christmas time in the Stanton family house: presents, carol singing, good cheer. 'This night will be bad, and tomorrow will be beyond imagining.' Print The Dark is Rising (Vintage Classics)
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