J I Thacker

The Factory of Souls 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...