The Dark Side of Magic

Dark Man #8

by Peter Lancett, Jan Pedroietta (Illustrator)

The Dark Man must once again pit his powers against the evil forces of the Shadow Masters. This book is part of the Dark Man Series, a range of books for emergent teen and adult readers. With only a limited vocabulary, these gritty and mysterious books pull readers into the tense storyline. The sinister atmosphere and strong black-and-white illustrations ensure that the book appeals to older readers and isn't patronising. This is one of the shorter stories in the Dark Man series focusing on the top 100 high frequency words.

36 pages, Paperback

First published February 15, 2005

About the author

Author, Editor and Film maker

Grew up in Stoke-on-Trent, England
Lived in London for 12 years
Lived in New Zealand for 6 years and later for 5 years
Currently living and working in England.

As a writer, I am the creator and author of the award winning Dark Man series of books, author of the novels Seeing Red, Gun Dog and Hanging in the Mist for the "Cutting Edge" series, published by Ransom Publishing (I was also the series editor), The Shadowmasters (Parts One and Two) and The Iron Maiden.

I also wrote and directed The Xlitherman, a feature film set in England, and have worked extensively for US-based producers on script and concept development for film and television, including the writing of pilot scripts for projects starring Ron Perlman (Sons of Anarchy, Beauty and the Beast, Hand of God), Oscar nominee Bruce Davidson, and Golden Globe nominee Lainie Kazan.

My latest work, in conjunction with co-author Teresa Schaeffer, is THE RAVENMOCKER, a disturbing novel of psychological horror, based on our feature film script of the same name.
January, 2016

Reviews

[Frankie Spence · Rating 3 out of 5]

A mild horror story, suitable for KS3 (secondary school children, aged 11-14 years); part of a series where most of the books can be read without regard for reading order.

Reading Level: 1.8
Word Count: 246

[Cindy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a fantasy book. Because the main character in this book have magic. I chose to read this book is because I am no interesting fantasy book before and I want to make some change. After reading it, I feel like it is easy to understand the magic and the mood in this book is dark but also positive. To me, the story is coherent, all of them are very generative. My favorite character is the dark man, he is positive and represent the good. I love when the girl freeze everyone and do the steal other one's pocket, I know it's bad but that is so cool. I feel like this book connected with the harry porter, because Hogwarts also want the student learning how to control the magic. If you are interesting at magic you might love this book.

[Borlynka · Rating 3 out of 5]

The title of this book is: The dark dreams, by Peter Lancett. This book is kind of interesting and terror. Reflects people's psychological fear. For me this book is just so-so. For example it's too easy for me, and the picture is all white and black. I don't like this series.

[Bree · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is about a girl who uses her powers to freeze people and steal from them. She thinks its ok to do that becauise she has powers. But its really not so it take a dark man to try to help her learn that it is wrong.

[mimi nation · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a bout a girl who has powers and she keep freezing people to still their stuff but there is the black man he can not be frozen told her that she needed to go see the old man.

[Sue · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am a librarian in a 4th - 6th grade elementary library. I read this book to check it's appropriateness for our school library. This is a great high interest - low reading level book.