An exciting first horror novel for young teens, to terrify and move in equal measure.
It was just a game, a test of bravery; the devil's footsteps, thirteen stepping stones and whichever one you stepped on would tell you how you would die. Yes, just a game like a skipping rhyme, and nobody ever died from a skipping rhyme. But it's not a game to Bryan. He knows the truth. He's seen the Dark Man, because the Dark Man took his brother five years ago. He's tried to tell himself again and again that it was his imagination, that the Devil's footsteps are just stones and the Dark Man didn't take Adam when he reached the thirteenth step. But what does it matter if people believe in the legend or not. Adam's still gone and now it's time Bryan proved how . . .
