Abner shares his forename with his father and grandfather. Ancestral Name: Several characters pass their names down through the generations:. Nibbins also used to be a familiar, but is now a household cat who sides with Kay. All Witches Have Cats: Blackmalkin and Greymalkin serve the coven as familiars.Abandoned Area: The brewery and stables at Seekings, obsolete in the age of mass-produced beer and motor cars, now slowly falling into ruin. The two books also have links, in terms of shared settings and characters, with a series of adventure stories for adults which began with Sard Harker in 1925. He is aided in his quest by the Midnight Folk, an association of Talking Animals, Living Toys, and other fantastic creatures.īut not all the creatures that haunt the night are friendly: a coven of witches is also after the treasure, led by the scheming Abner Brown and the sinister Mrs Pouncer, and woe betide anyone who gets in their way.Ī sequel, The Box of Delights, was published in 1935. Young Kay Harker has a variety of adventures in search of the truth about a famous treasure that his great-grandfather, a merchant captain, was given for safe-keeping then lost when his crew mutinied. The Midnight Folk is a children's fantasy novel by John Masefield, first published in 1927.
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