The Face in the Frost Audiobook (Free)

A fantasy vintage by the writer of The House with a Clock in Its Walls-basis for the Jack port Black movie-and ‘a article writer who knows what wizardry is all about’ (Ursula K. Le Guin).

A richly imaginative tale of wizards stymied by a power beyond their control, A Face in the Frost combines the thrills of a horror novel using the inventiveness of fairy tale-inspired fantasy.

Prospero, a tall, skinny misfit of the wizard, lives in the South Kingdom-a patchwork of feuding duchies and little manors, all on the subject of THE FACIAL SKIN in the Frost loosely loyal to 1 figurehead king. Along with his necromancer friend Roger Bacon, who has been on a quest to discover a secret book, Prospero must flee his house to escape ominous pursuers. Hence begins an experience that will business lead him to a grove where his older rival, Melichus, is normally falsely rumored to become buried also to a less-than-hospitable inn in the town of Five Dials-and ultimately into a harmful battle with origins in a magical glass paperweight.

With a unique mixture of humor and darkness, it remains one of the most beloved tales with the Edgar Award-nominated author also known for the long-running Lewis Barnavelt series.