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In The Thumper, a group of kids experience the legend of 'The Thumper' during a camping trip gone wrong.
In The Tunnel, the Dark, three boys become lost in darkness when they fall through the roof of an old abattoir.
Affiliation Notes
This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it has been translated into Chinese.
Contents
* Contents derived from the Beijing,
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China,
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East Asia,South and East Asia,Asia,:Zhi shi chu ban she,2001 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
"The Thumper is and always will be. It is also than the forests, great than the karri trees. The Thumper is something that lurks within legend and inspires nightmares. It is fuelled by imagination and lives in darkness. It is thunder and lightening, the destroyer of trees. It is the Thumper. It feeds on fear." (back cover)
"Imagine a blackness that is total. You can see nothing whatsoever. Now realise that you have no idea where you are -- but, bit by bit, you hear the strangest sounds coming closer and closer, sounds which are vaguely familiar yet you just can't figure out what they are.
Three boys are lost in a nightmare from which there is seemingly no way out." (Back cover)
