Peter Scattergood and the Panic Horn
(2013)(The first book in the Haunted High School series)
A Novella by Frank Lean
Peter Scattergood is a nasty piece of work, a boy who is well on the way towards becoming a problem. On the same day that he causes a major accident he dodges his teachers by hiding in a little known cellar underneath his school.
While there he unknowingly revives a dormant being which has been trapped there for many years. The being denies that it is a ghost or a 'spook' and claims to be an EIDOLON, a naturally occurring non-material life form.
Existing for so long in isolation, the eidolon has absorbed the ideas of a long gone headmaster of the school, Mr Thane, whose furniture is stored in the cellar. It believes is has a duty to make something of Peter and that his arrival in the cellar wasn't an accident. It applies Mr Thane's principles to Peter which are in marked contrast to his treatment by his present day teachers who have mostly given up on him.
Peter quickly finds that the being, although it is 'non-material' and not magical, has powers to make him change his behaviour. A struggle commences in which Peter finds himself on a new path.
Gradually the eidolon regains its own consciousness and comes to believe that there is some vital 'task' facing Peter which he must be prepared for whether he likes it or not. He mostly doesn't care for it.
The book is part of a trilogy which concludes when Peter's task is revealed to him.
Genre: Children's Fiction
While there he unknowingly revives a dormant being which has been trapped there for many years. The being denies that it is a ghost or a 'spook' and claims to be an EIDOLON, a naturally occurring non-material life form.
Existing for so long in isolation, the eidolon has absorbed the ideas of a long gone headmaster of the school, Mr Thane, whose furniture is stored in the cellar. It believes is has a duty to make something of Peter and that his arrival in the cellar wasn't an accident. It applies Mr Thane's principles to Peter which are in marked contrast to his treatment by his present day teachers who have mostly given up on him.
Peter quickly finds that the being, although it is 'non-material' and not magical, has powers to make him change his behaviour. A struggle commences in which Peter finds himself on a new path.
Gradually the eidolon regains its own consciousness and comes to believe that there is some vital 'task' facing Peter which he must be prepared for whether he likes it or not. He mostly doesn't care for it.
The book is part of a trilogy which concludes when Peter's task is revealed to him.
Genre: Children's Fiction
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