The Servants - Hardcover

Moving to Brighton with his sick mother and her new husband, eleven-year-old Mark finds himself immersed in a strange new world when he sneaks into the old servants' quarters and begins seeing the long-dead servants doing their jobs.

Things are unreliable. Things break. Things fall apart. Even at 11 years old, Mark knows this all too well.By the time he moves out of London to a wintery seaside town, things are already bad. His mother is sick, and Mark doesn't get along with his new stepfather. Although he finds an ally in an elderly neighbor, it still doesn't feel like home, and shadows are soon gathering as things slowly start to get worse.Mark knows he has to do something, but he doesn't know what. And the only people who might be able to help him . . . may not exist.A modern fantasy novel from the International Horror Guild award-winning author of SPARES and the STRAW MEN trilogy. The first original novel by Smith in almost a decade! (ONE OF US was published 9 years ago.)