Room 13 (Swindells novel)

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Room 13

First edition
Author	Robert Swindells
Cover artist	Mark Robertson[1]
Genre	Gothic Horror
Publisher	Doubleday
Publication date	1989
Media type	Print (paperback)
Pages	347 pp
ISBN	0-385-26967-6

Room 13 is a Gothic-horror children's novel written by the acclaimed award-winning children's author Robert Swindells. Published in 1989, it was awarded the Red House Children's Book Award.^[2] The novel centres around a group of friends on a school trip, who stay in a creepy guest house on Whitby's West Cliff.

Plot summary[]

Fliss Morgan has a nightmare on the night before her school trip, to Whitby. Every night Ellie-May Sunderland is drawn to the landing outside the mysterious Room 13, which does not seem to exist during the day. Fliss and her friends attempt to unravel the mystery of the room, and determine the identity of its sinister inhabitant.

Characters[]

Felicity "Fliss" Morgan: The main character. Fliss begins observing strange events in the hotel at night, and becomes determined to get to the bottom of what is going on.

Lisa Watmoug: Felicity's best friend. A loud boisterous girl who always gets into trouble with her teachers. She helps Fliss discover and kill the vampire lurking in Room 13.

Ellie-May Sunderland: A girl in second year who begins acting strangely

David "Trot" Trotter: A loudmouthed boy

Gary Bazzard: One of Trot's friends

Mr. Hepworth: A teacher

Mrs. Marriott: A loud military style teacher.

Sall Haggerlythe: An elderly woman who sits in the bus shelter near the children's hotel, and is widely believed to be insane.

References[]

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