The Doomsday Archives: The Wandering Hour

<p><b>“A superb choice for fans of Jonathan Stroud’s Lockwood & Co. series, Tom Booth’s Eerie-on-Sea books, and creepypastas.” ?Booklist, Starred Review</b><br><b><i><br>What if your favorite scary story was real?</i></b><br><br><b>With eerie illustrations and chilling creepypasta interstitials, <i>The Doomsday Archives: The Wandering Hour</i> by Zack Loran Clark and Nick Eliopulos is the first in a deliciously creepy series, perfect for readers of Jonathan Stroud, Christian McKay Heidicker, and <i>Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark</i>.</b><br><br>New Rotterdam is no place for a kid?and that’s what Emrys Houtman likes about it. Emrys obsessively documents his town’s urban legends and cryptid sightings in a Wiki, along with his neighbors and fellow horror fans Hazel and Serena. It’s all in good fun until one day, the trio stumbles upon the Doomsday Archives, a collection of relics with dazzling powers and dangerous consequences.<br><br>When a mysterious blood-red hourglass begins appearing around town and children begin to go missing, the trio must band together to stop the horrors plaguing New Rotterdam, or risk losing their home . . . and possibly their lives. Because after all this time hunting monsters, the kids have realized the monsters are now hunting them back.</p>