In the NewYork Times bestselling author of TheStolen Child comes a hypnotic literary horror book in regards to a young boytrapped inside his own globe, whose drawings blur the lines between fantasy andreality.

Ever since he almost drowned in the sea threeyears previously, ten-year-old Jack port Peter Keenan continues to be deathly afraid toventure outside. Refusing to keep his house in a small coastal city in Maine,Jack Peter spends his time drawing monsters. When those drawings undertake a lifeof their very own, no about The Boy Who Drew Monsters: A Book one is secure in the terror they inspire. His mother, Holly,begins to listen to unusual sounds in the night coming from the ocean, and she seeksanswers from the local Catholic priest and his Japanese housekeeper, who fillher mind with tales of shipwrecks and spirits. His father, Tim, wanders thebeach, frantically looking for a strange apparition running wild in thedunes. As well as the boy’s only friend, Nick, becomes helplessly entangled in theeerie power of the drawings. While those around Jack Peter are haunted by whatthey believe they see, only he knows the truth behind the frightful occurrences asthe outside globe encroaches upon all of them.

In the tradition of The Turn of the Screw, Keith Donohue’s The Boy Who Drew Monsters is a mesmerizing tale of psychologicalterror and imagination run wild, a perfectly creepy examine to get a dark night.