The Eyeball Collector

Ambrose is an orphan on a mission for revenge, but when he ends up on the doorstep of the great Velhildegildus Hall he is faced with more than he bargained for. Soon Ambrose finds he has his own part to play in the grisly games of a baron with a mysterious past - and a sinister collection of rare butterfly cocoons.

This book is told in the author's usual inimitable style, with a touch of gore, a splash of grim and a dark mystery to unravel. There is a new cast of characters, but we also meet a few friends from earlier books as we travel with Ambrose from Urbs Umida to Pagus Parvus and on to a new and even more imaginative Gothic setting - the great, dark Velhildegildus Hall.
F E Higgins has been fascinated by the macabre ever since seeing a ghostly apparition as a child. Nowadays F E travels the lands that these books describe, collecting strange artefacts and the even stranger secrets and stories behind them. The Black Book of Secrets and The Bone Magician, the first results of these eerie explorations, have sold all over the world. When not in pursuit of a story, F E may be found in a haunted house in Kent. She sits with quill in hand, a false leg beside her and from the mantelpiece an eyeball watches the words she forms on the page.