The Boggart
core novel 1993 The Boggart
Record
| First published | 1993 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.76 (4,976 ratings, collected 2026-10-08) |
| Page count | 196 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780689505768 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
When the last MacDevon dies, Castle Keep, a small ruined castle on an island in Loch Linnhe in the Scottish Highlands, passes to a distant relative in Toronto, Robert Volnik, who brings his family across to see it. His children Emily and Jessup explore the old place and carry home a few of its treasures, among them an antique rolltop desk, not knowing that something has been asleep in the desk: the Boggart, an ancient, invisible, shape-shifting spirit of mischief who has lived with the MacDevons for centuries, playing tricks for the pleasure of it and never meaning harm. Transplanted to a modern city of traffic, electricity and computers, the Boggart's pranks grow out of control, and the children, who alone come to understand what is happening in their house, must find a way to send him home. Cooper's first comic novel, published between her Dark Is Rising sequence and King of Shadows.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Boggart
- Series: The Boggart core; position 1 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Susan Cooper
Notes
- From the series record (The Boggart): Susan Cooper's comic trilogy about a boggart, a mischievous, invisible, shape-shifting spirit of Scottish folklore who has haunted Castle Keep on Loch Linnhe for centuries, and the Canadian family who inherit the castle and, with it, him.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Boggart: position 1 of 3: next The Boggart and the Monster (1997)
Sources
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