Bøger af J. I. Thacker

The Factory of SoulsThe second book of the Shadowland HexologyThe ghost haunting the shell of the abandoned Tipler mill is finally at rest.But the true monster at the rotten heart of Fairfield is still alive - if you can call a vampire alive. Mister Jack and his procurer the Alchemist have been terrorising the children of Fairfield for more than two hundred years. Week after week, year after year, children vanish in the night and are never heard from again.And the rate of disappearances has suddenly increased. Unknown to David and his friends, Milla the young witch and Professor Fuller the aged expert on the occult, not all of the abducted children end up with Mister Jack's fangs fastened upon their throats. The Red Guild are stockpiling living children at the Factory of Souls in preparation for a blasphemous ritual at which the elite of the city believe they will become gods.And there may be even more at stake than the lives of the missing children. The very fate of the world hangs in the balance in the Factory of Souls...

Denierland is the place where sceptics of climate catastrophe have been exiled.Sceptics refuse to bow to the consensus that the Wealthy West faces "Migration crises, civil wars, crop failures, famines, extreme weather, looting, wildfires and flooding" if we don't cut our emissions of carbon dioxide to the fabled "Net Zero." Why? Are we too proud? Funded by fossil fuel interests? Is it pure selfishness? Maybe we're too stupid? Is it because we think climate action is a ruse to install undemocratic global government? Do we think it is all a Chinese hoax to bankrupt the West? Nope, nope and nope again. The reason is far more prosaic. Sceptics have very good evidence that the alarmists' fire and brimstone predictions are wildly exaggerated, and that the measures they propose won't make life better for normal people anywhere. Instead, they will reduce our freedoms and make us poorer.And rationalising all the world's problems onto a single axis - carbon dioxide - won't solve the biodiversity crisis either. It will just make things worse for wildlife. Denierland explains why: CLIMATE CHANGE IS REALHUMAN-CAUSED CLIMATE CHANGE IS REALBUT HUMAN-CAUSED CLIMATE APOCALYPSE IS NOT.

David Carraway is an ordinary boy - except that everywhere he goes he is accompanied by the walking, talking ghost of his dead brother, Nathan. Only David can see Nathan, who lives in the Shadowland, the space between life and death, where the dead walk and nightmares make their homes. But Nathan is not the only ghost in town: there are others, including some that exist as parasites on their human victims. With Nathan as his eyes and ears in the Shadowland, David sets about freeing innocent people of the ghosts who terrorize them. With a ghost on your side, some exorcisms are easy. But one ghost - the malevolent spirit in the abandoned Tipler Factory - is more than a match for the Carraway brothers. The mumbled words of exorcism do not bother it; it catches and eats ghosts as a spider catches flies, feeding on them, growing in strength and fury. David has already lost his brother once, when he was abducted and murdered. Now he loses Nathan again - but this time, he will stop at nothing to get him back, even if he must dare the dread paths of the Shadowland himself...