Do the Creepy Thing by Graham Joyce
Fourteen-year-old Caz and her friend Lucy do the Creepy Thing. It's a bizarre version of 'chicken'. They break into houses while folk are asleep, challenging each other to 'do a creepy'. To 'do a creepy' you approach a sleeping person in the dark, in the dead of night, putting your nose one inch away from the sleeper's face for a count of fifteen seconds. One night, Caz breaks into the house of Sara Metherall, a lonely old woman shunned by the community. Lucy challenges Caz to do the Creepy Thing. Caz rises to the challenge. She creeps, she counts. But just before she completes the count of fifteen the old woman opens her eyes and clamps Caz's wrist with a cold silver bracelet. The next morning the bracelet has disappeared, but left in its place a tattoo. A tattoo that holds a curse. While her life disintegrates around her, Caz has to find a way of lifting that curse. Or returning it to the place it came from...
Graham Joyce is the author of nine adult novels and has won numerous awards for his writing, including four British Fantasy Awards and the 2003 World Fantasy Award for The Facts of Life. Among his previous jobs he has been a teacher and spent eight years working for a youth organisation. He currently teaches creative writing at Nottingham Trent University and lives in Leicester with his wife and children.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571230358 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571230350 |
| Title | Do the Creepy Thing |
| Author | Graham Joyce |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2006-07-06 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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