The days between Christmas and New Year’s Eve are dead days, when spirits roam beneath the surface of our lives. A magician called Valerian must save his own life within those few days, or pay the price that he made with evil so many years ago, but are no match against the great power pursuing him. Helping him is his servant, Boy, a child with no name or past, and the orphan girl, Willow, together they dig in death-fields at midnight, and are swept into the subterranean city on a journey from which there is no escape. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The Book of Dead Days (Marcus Sedgwick)