The Dark Portal
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| Author | Robin Jarvis |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Deptford Histories |
| Genre(s) | Fantasy novel |
| Publisher | Hodder Wayland |
| Released | 1989 |
| Media type | Print (paperback ) |
| ISBN | ISBN |
This article refers to the book by Robin Jarvis. For the Warcraft artifact see Dark Portal
The Dark Portal is the first book in the Deptford Mice Trilogy by Robin Jarvis (first published in 1989).
[edit] Plot summary
In the sewers of Deptford there lurks a dark presence that fills the tunnels with fear: Jupiter, a dark enigma known only by his evil, glowing eyes seen behind a dark "portal" in the tunnel wall. The rats worship him and do his dark bidding.
The Deptford mice, who worship the Green Mouse who brings Spring, are aware of Jupiter's evil presence in the tunnels. One of the mice, Albert Brown, is pulled through a grate into the sewers by the dark enchantments that Jupiter has woven there. He meets a cheeky mouse from the city, Piccadilly, also lost inside the lair of the rats. When Albert is captured by Morgan, a Cornish, piebald rat with a stump for a tail and rings through his ears (none other than Jupiter's lieutenant) and brought to Jupiter, Piccadilly escapes into Albert's home, known as the Skirtings, where he meets a large number of friends.
Firstly, there is Audrey Brown, Albert's day-dreaming daughter who hates Piccadilly for surviving where her father did not. Then there is Arthur Brown, Audrey's plump and funny brother. There is also simple fieldmouse William Scuttle or 'Twit' and his cousin, the sickly albino runt, Oswald Chitter. Along with the old Midship-mouse, Thomas Triton and Gwen Brown, the mother of Audrey and Arthur, they venture into the sewers to banish Jupiter from the world. The Rat God, however, has an evil plan. He wants to release the Black Death on the world once more...
In the end, they dicover that Jupiter is realy a huge cat! The mice throw him into the river and his doom.
| The Deptford Mice | |
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| Books | The Dark Portal | The Crystal Prison | The Final Reckoning | The Alchemist's Cat | The Oaken Throne | Thomas | Fleabee's Fortune | Whortle's Hope | Ogmund's Gift | The Deptford Mice Almanack |
| Characters | Audrey Brown | Arthur Brown | Piccadilly | Oswald Chitter | William Scuttle (Twit) | Albert Brown | Gwen Brown | Thomas Triton | The Starwife | Jupiter | Madame Akkikuyu | Morgan | Skinner | Finn | Orfeo | Eldritch | Dab | Imelza | William Godwin | Elias Theophrastus Spittle | Magnus Zachaire | Ysabelle | Vespertilio | Wendel Maculatum | Morwenna | Woodget Pipple | Simoon | Dahrem Rohar | Fleabee |
