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Professor Thistlequick, also known as the "Clockwork Magician", is having the strangest day. His otherworld seeker just found a brand-new dimension, but it's stopped working, and the only way of powering it back up is by finding highly forbidden ingredients. The hunt is on! Fastening on his top hat and coat, the professor races across London, searching for a shop that doesn’t stay in the same place for very long and, soon, becomes entangled in a web of dark magic, great inventions, and terrifying plots.

When Eliza Winter finds a hidden room in her missing grandfather’s Gothic house, her world is turned upside down. Inside, below a stained glass window where moonlight shines no matter the hour, awaits The Book of Kindly Deaths, a terrifying collection of darkly sinister tales. Desperate for clues to solve her grandfather’s disappearance, Eliza opens the book of ominous, enchanted stories and discovers that nothing is what it seems, and that sometimes fairy tales are true.