Summary

'When the Dark comes rising, six shall turn it back; three from the circle, three from the track; wood, bronze, iron, water, fire, stone; five will return and one go alone.' Susan Cooper's brilliant and absorbing fantasy sequence - the fourth volume of which, The Grey King, won the Newbery Medal - is here published in a single volume.

'When the Dark comes rising, six shall turn it back; three from the circle, three from the track; wood, bronze, iron, water, fire, stone; five will return and one go alone.' Susan Cooper's brilliant and absorbing fantasy sequence - the fourth volume of which, The Grey King, won the Newbery Medal - is here published in a single volume.