Feeling shackled by a town too small and a life too limited, fourteen-year old Matt Freeman yields to the taunts of a streetwise punk and breaks into an electronics warehouse. The violent aftermath results in his sentencing to foster care in a curious Yorkshire village that harbors sinister secrets. There, Matt uncovers his destined role as a gatekeeper against the release of ancient evils through Raven’s Gate, a portal in the town’s abandoned nuclear plant. Threats surround Matt in the form of attacks by dinosaur skeletons, dark witchcraft, and the deaths of those who try to help. It’s a heart-thumping contemporary thriller . nlr

Originally published by Walker Books Great Britain, in 2005; based on an idea first published in 1983 as The Devil’s Doorbell.

This chilling NYT bestseller from Anthony Horowitz, "a master of edge-of-your-seat writing" (Booklist, starred) is "an exhilarating read" (Kirkus) that "should attract a strong following" (PW)As punishment for a crime he didn't really commit, Matt was given a choice: go to jail or go live with an old woman named Mrs. Deverill in a remote town called Lesser Malling. He should have chosen jail. A strange and sinister plan is coming together made in Lesser Malling, with Matt at the center of it all. People who try to help him disappear . . . or die. It all ties to an evil place named Raven's Gate - a place whose destiny is horrifyingly intertwined with Matt's own.