| Contents |
Prologue: A town called gloom -- Mr. Bumbailiff -- Rory devises a plan -- Upon entering Foxglove Manor -- Black Maddie's -- Lord Foxglove -- Isabella, also known as Izzy -- The valet's first day -- A feast like no other -- The valet is interrogated -- A glimpse, nothing more -- An evening in the salon -- Portraits in the hall -- A lacquered box and what he found within -- A shoeless, shirtless boy -- Captain's quay -- Upon entering the house of Lysander Swoop -- A procession of the most-curious sort -- Oxtail and cabbage soup -- A faded tulip -- Saved by a curse -- Hidden -- A flame in the dark -- An almost normal day -- Masked -- Unmasked -- The infernal machine -- The valet finds that which was lost -- Neither sloop, nor Jackdaw -- Tales from the sea -- The valet discovers himself -- The path -- Desire. |
| Abstract |
Twelve-year-old Rory and his friend Izzy try to foil the plans of Lord Foxglove, for whom Rory works as a valet, and his inhuman accomplices from taking over the world.-- Provided by Publisher. |
| Interest age level |
Ages 10-12 |
| Interest grade level |
Grades 5-7 |
| Audience |
650 Lexile |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Smith, Ronald L. (Ronald Lenard), 1959- Gloom town. Boston ; New York : Clarion Books, 2020 9780358164494 |
| Genre/form | Horror tales. |
| Genre/form | Fantasy fiction. |
| Genre/form | Fiction. |
| Genre/form | Juvenile works. |
| Genre/form | Fantasy fiction. |
| Genre/form | Horror fiction. |
| Genre/form | Fantasy fiction. |
| LCCN | 2019004986 |
| ISBN | 9781328841612 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1328841618 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
