Pan's Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro, Cornelia Funke

Pan's Labyrinth

by Guillermo del Toro and Cornelia Funke

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

This enthralling novel, inspired by the 2006 film, illustrates that fantasy is the sharpest tool to explore the terrors and miracles of the human heart

You shouldn't come in here. You could get lost. It has happened before. I'll tell you the story one day, if you want to hear it.

In fairy tales, there are men and there are wolves, there are beasts and dead parents, there are girls and forests.

Ofelia knows all this, like any young woman with a head full of stories. And she sees right away what the Capitán is, in his immaculate uniform, boots and gloves, smiling: a wolf.

But nothing can prepare her for the fevered reality of the Capitán’s eerie house, in the midst of a dense forest which conceals many things: half-remembered stories of lost babies; renegade resistance fighters hiding from the army; a labyrinth; beasts and fairies.

There is no one to keep Ofelia safe as the labyrinth beckons her into her own story, where the monstrous and the human are inextricable, where myths pulse with living blood ...

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Atmospheric, haunting, whimsical and completely heart breaking. This was a beautifully told story that chilled my bones and kept me on the edge of my seat. I watched the movie in HS, but I didn't remember practically anything about it, so I felt like I was taking in this story for the first time.

It was just the type of brilliant horror to start October with!

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