Narrator Anthony and his sister Sarah go to a demolition sale at a haunted house, Morley Manor, "the most interesting place" in Owl's Roost, Nebraska. With an autumn 2001 publication date, a cheerfully scary cover and a story that includes just about every type of creepy ghoul you can imagine, The Monsters of Morley Manor is clearly aimed at those who like a little seasonal reading come Halloween. Coville tells a good story, but keep an eye out for that humor and his well-honed sense of the ridiculous, no matter what the title or the age for which the book is intended.Īll of this is true of Coville's latest book, The Monsters of Morley Manor. There seems to be a single thread that binds all of Coville's work: don't come to one of this author's books with preconceptions of what you might find there. Though Coville has honed his writing and tightened his audience scope in the two-plus decades since, he hasn't lost his sense of humor or his willingness to tackle new forms.
Eighty books in to a stupefyingly successful career as an author of children's books, Coville's prose still sounds as breezy and happy as it did back in the 1970s when Coville and his illustrator wife, Katherine, collaborated on their first book, The Foolish Giant. You just have to love the way Bruce Coville's mind works. Review | The Monsters of Morley Manor by Bruce Coville
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