The Horror

by Joan Lowery Nixon

ACE ISBN 0590423703 ( 9780590423700)

A NIGHT OF TERROR

As Jeff and Debbie make their way to the old Hackman mansion, snowflakes start to fall. They come to the house on Hackman's HIll to look for a stolen Egyptian mummy that old Mr. Karsten has told them about--and for which they could get a ten-thousand-dollar reward!

They have heard Mr. Karsten's horrifying tale of accidents and disappearances that surround the old mansion. But they don't listen to his warning-- "Stay away from that place!" And as the snow gets thicker and thicker, and the drifts grow higher and higher, Debbie and Jeff find themselves trapped in the house with a mummy that lives!
--back cover

Genres: Young Adult

126 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1985

About the author

Author of more than one hundred books, Joan Lowery Nixon is the only writer to have won four Edgar Allan Poe Awards for Juvenile Mysteries (and been nominated several other times) from the Mystery Writers of America. Creating contemporary teenage characters who have both a personal problem and a mystery to solve, Nixon captured the attention of legions of teenage readers since the publication of her first YA novel more than twenty years ago. In addition to mystery/suspense novels, she wrote nonfiction and fiction for children and middle graders, as well as several short stories. Nixon was the first person to write novels for teens about the orphan trains of the nineteenth century. She followed those with historical novels about Ellis Island and, more recently for younger readers, Colonial Williamsburg. Joan Lowery Nixon died on June 28, 2003—a great loss for all of us.