The Haunted Storm

First edition
(publ. New English Library)

The Haunted Storm (1972) is author Philip Pullman's first book. He was only 25 at the time and it was "published by a publisher who didn't realise it wasn't a very good book". The Haunted Storm became joint winner of the New English Library's Young Writer's Award in 1972.

Characters

Matthew Cortez. Elizabeth Cole.

Plot summary

Unease and suspicion divide a small village following violence and death. Matthew Cortez is physically involved in the investigation, finding his spiritual problems have a greater depth of reality. Only in the final disastrous confrontation in a ruined Mithraic temple does he, at last, glimpse the possibility of peace. Described by Antonia Fraser as an "honest and enterprising attempt to interweave the eternal and immortal longings of youth into the texture of a contemporary story"

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Themes

Gnosticism.

References

↑ http://www.abebooks.de/search/sortby/3/an/Pullman+/tn/+Haunted+Storm

Novels by Philip Pullman

His Dark Materials	Northern Lights (1995) The Subtle Knife (1997) The Amber Spyglass (2000)

Sally Lockhart	The Ruby in the Smoke (1985) The Shadow in the North (1986) The Tiger in the Well (1990) The Tin Princess (1994)

The New-Cut Gang	Thunderbolt's Waxwork (1994) The Gasfitter's Ball (1995)

Other	The Haunted Storm (1972) Galatea (1976) Count Karlstein (1982) How to be Cool (1987) Spring-Heeled Jack (1989) The Broken Bridge (1990) The White Mercedes (1992) The Wonderful Story of Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp (1993) Clockwork, or, All Wound Up (1995) The Firework-Maker's Daughter (1995) Mossycoat (1998) The Butterfly Tattoo (1998) I Was a Rat! or The Scarlet Slippers (1999) Puss in Boots: The Adventures of That Most Enterprising Feline (2000) The Scarecrow and his Servant (2004) The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ (2010)