"The Library of Doom" is a series of dark gritty stories for the less-confident reader. A young man gets a silver from a strange book. That night below the glow of a full moon, the young man transforms into the Word Eater. The beast prowls the streets searching for words to eat. If the librarian doesn't stop the beast, ever word and everything on earth could disappear.
作者简介
Michael Dahl is the author of more than 100 books for children and young adults. He has twice won the AEP Distinguished Achievement Award for his nonfiction. His Finnegan Z wake mystery series was chosen by the Agatha Awards to be among the five best mystery books for children in 2002 and 2003. He collects books on poison and graveyards, and lives in a haunted house in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The Word Eater
"The Library of Doom" is a series of dark gritty stories for the less-confident reader. A young man gets a silver from a strange book. That night below the glow of a full moon, the young man transforms into the Word Eater. The beast prowls the streets searching for words to eat. If the librarian doesn't stop the beast, ever word and everything on earth could disappear.
The Golden Book of Death
Someone has broken into the Library of Doom and the librarian has been struck down by a flying metal book. When he awakes the shadowy figure of the librarian's arch enemy, the Eraser, stands above him. The librarian finds himself chained to the golden book but can he escape before all the world's books are destroyed?
The Twister Trap
The Page Turners, two powerful books from the Library of Doom, have fallen into the hands of an evil magician. He turns the books into two terrible tornadoes, to destroy the Librarian. But when the twisters suddenly head toward a small village, the Librarian must risk his life to stop them.
The Smashing Scroll An ancient curse sends a stone silo crashing across the countryside. Houses, barns, and cars are crushed in its path. The silo contains a giant scroll, sent by the foul Spellbinder to imprison the entire earth within its vast, unrolling page. Even the mighty Librarian is overpowered by the Spellbinder's steamrolling magic. Can anyone stop the smashing scroll?
Cave of the Bookworms
One night after wakening from a terrible dream, a young boy heads out on his bike. The boy does not know where he is going but soon he arrives at a mysterious cave. Inside a giant, deadly worm has trapped the librarian and now the boy is also in danger.
The Book That Dripped Blood
A shopkeeper finds a dangerous book. Will the mysterious Librarian come to the rescue before more blood is spilled?
The Beast Beneath the Stairs
As the librarian returns to his underground library, he discovers that someone has broken in and stolen his collection of deadly books. Unless he finds them, the entire world may be faced with a plague of endless evil.
Attack of the Paper Bats
A weird book left on an empty street flips its pages in the wind. The breeze vanishes, but the pages keep moving. They take on a horrible, and hungry, life of their own. Only the Librarian can prevent a young boy falling prey to the razor attack of the bats. Only the Librarian knows the one thing that could possibly defeat them.
The Creeping Bookends
One evening, a young boy is accidentally locked inside the library. Suddenly, a pair of lizard bookends come alive! The boy watches as the ravenous reptiles gobble up stacks of books. Will the Librarian arrive before the boy becomes their next meal?