![]() Jarvis delivers a vivid tale of treachery, cruelty, and sorcery, leavened only by Will's innate goodness. The streets of London are vividly realized in all their smell, filth, and disease, as is Spittle's laboratory with its noxious potions, smoke, and evil doings. ![]() He finds refuge in an overgrown graveyard, where he comes upon a mother cat and three young kittens, which he carries back to his master's apothecary shop. On a late-night errand in winter, Will is pursued and almost caught. ![]() After being falsely accused of murder, he flees a mob and ends up in the hands of a wicked alchemist, Elias Theophratus Spittle, who forces Will into servitude. ![]() Orphaned Will Godwin arrives in London in 1664, summoned by an uncle he doesn't know. This creepy, atmospheric horror tale, the first in the Deptford Histories and a scary prequel to the Deptford Mice trilogy, reveals how Jupiter, Lord of the Darkness, became so evil and so powerful. ![]()
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