The Thief in the Night

by Henry Williamson

When nine year old Eric Thompson's fear of the dark publicly embarrasses his mother, she grounds him and locks him inside his room. When night falls, the blood curdling screams of her son would soon force her to come to his aid. Upon entering his room, she is forced to sacrifice her life for him. Helplessly watching as his mother is mysteriously branded and snatched away into the darkness, young Eric Thompson grows up seeking revenge on a supernatural creature.

52 pages, Paperback

First published December 24, 2005

About the author

Henry William Williamson was an English soldier, naturalist, farmer and ruralist writer known for his natural history and social history novels, as well as for his fascist sympathies. He won the Hawthornden Prize for literature in 1928 with his book Tarka the Otter.

Henry Williamson is best known for a tetralogy of four novels which consists of The Beautiful Years (1921), Dandelion Days (1922), The Dream of Fair Women (1924) and The Pathway (1928). These novels are collectively known as The Flax of Dream and they follow the life of Willie Maddison from boyhood to adulthood in a rapidly changing world.