Grip of the Shadow Plague
core novel 2008 Fablehaven
Record
| First published | 2008 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.31 (100,960 ratings, collected 2026-10-05) |
| Page count | 487 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781590388983 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
Strange things are afoot at Fablehaven. Someone or something has released a plague that transforms beings of light into creatures of darkness, and Seth, who discovers the problem in its infancy, watches it spread until it is plain the preserve cannot hold out for long. In dire need of help, the Sorensons must decide where to turn. Kendra, meanwhile, travels with the Knights of the Dawn to another refuge, the Lost Mesa in Arizona, to locate an artefact of incredible strength before the Society of the Evening Star can recover it, while Seth, left behind, faces another attack on Fablehaven itself. The third book deepens the series' mythology, with a journal from the preserve's legendary past caretaker Patton Burgess, the revelation of what the plague is and where it came from, and a glimpse of the war of light and darkness that the preserves were built to contain.
Where it sits
- Universe: Fablehaven
- Series: Fablehaven core; position 3 of 5 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Brandon Mull
Notes
- From the series record (Fablehaven): Brandon Mull's bestselling middle-grade series: siblings Kendra and Seth Sorenson discover that their grandfather is caretaker of Fablehaven, a hidden preserve for magical creatures, and are drawn into the race between the Knights of the Dawn and the Society of the Evening Star for the five artefacts that unlock the demon prison Zzyzx.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Fablehaven: position 3 of 5: previous Rise of the Evening Star (2007) · next Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary (2009)
- Internal chronology, within Fablehaven: position 6 of 11: previous Wrath of the Dragon King (2018) · next Master of the Phantom Isle (2019)
Sources
- Wikipedia
- Shadow Mountain (publisher) via Harvard Book Store listing
- https://www.harvard.com/book/9781590388983
- https://catalog.northloganlibrary.org/Record/54622
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