"On Saturday, August 8th, the year she was ten, Miss Potts attended an evil magic show at the railroad depot. Now, 50 years later, she discovers the handbill from that same show in the desk of one of her students, Emily Endicott. The magician has returned in the guise of a new student--Scott Renshaw, a sinister pied piper; he will lure new victims to become part of his deadly tricks when he reenacts the show on another Saturday, August 8th." --contemporary review by Kirkus (undated online)
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Placement
- A Darker Magic — #1