Amelia Shadows and the Monster in the Box
Will be published approx. on 4. August 2026
Book
Hardback
104 pages
978-1-5458-2745-1 (ISBN)
Description
Magic and mayhem collide in the second volume of this fantastical new series!
When your father is a powerful dark magician, you end up with a lot of interesting and dangerous things around the house — souvenirs of his many magical exploits, trophies of his many battles, even a magical prisoner or two. But Amelia Shadows’s father isn’t just any powerful dark magician, he is the most powerful dark magician, in the whole world! So you know her house is filled with all sorts of stuff. Very dangerous stuff. Stuff she’s not supposed to mess with. Not that Amelia has ever been good at obeying rules. While poking around in one her father’s many trophy rooms, Amelia breaks the most important magic rule of all — when you find a mysterious box making strange noises at you, under no circumstances should you open it! Now there’s an incredibly dangerous and ferocious creature on the loose in the Shadows’s house and Amelia had better find a way to get it back into its box before the head ghost Hans finds out, or even worse, her dad gets home!
When your father is a powerful dark magician, you end up with a lot of interesting and dangerous things around the house — souvenirs of his many magical exploits, trophies of his many battles, even a magical prisoner or two. But Amelia Shadows’s father isn’t just any powerful dark magician, he is the most powerful dark magician, in the whole world! So you know her house is filled with all sorts of stuff. Very dangerous stuff. Stuff she’s not supposed to mess with. Not that Amelia has ever been good at obeying rules. While poking around in one her father’s many trophy rooms, Amelia breaks the most important magic rule of all — when you find a mysterious box making strange noises at you, under no circumstances should you open it! Now there’s an incredibly dangerous and ferocious creature on the loose in the Shadows’s house and Amelia had better find a way to get it back into its box before the head ghost Hans finds out, or even worse, her dad gets home!
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
Children/juvenile
Reading Age: From 7 to 12 years
Illustrations
104 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
311 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5458-2745-1 (9781545827451)
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Person
Matthew Dow Smith is a writer and comic book artist whose work has appeared in Mike Mignola’s Hellboy, DC’s Starman, and many others. He was the writer of the X-Files: Origins comic book series, the third volume of the Dark Crystal: Creation Myths graphic novel series, and several Doctor Who comic book stories for IDW, the BBC, and BBC America. He is the writer and artist of DC’s middle grade graphic novel Misfits of Magic, and creator-owned digital comics Amelia Shadows: Daughter of Darkness, Johnny Chaos, and Arch-Nemesis. He lives on the east coast of the US.