What the Darkness Feeds On

Mason Miller is used to adults not noticing anything. In Pearl, it’s always like this: the more lights, masks, and candies there are, the fewer questions. People don’t notice that every year on Halloween night, one child disappears. And Mason is the only one who remembers that these children ever existed. When his little sister is kidnapped right before his eyes, Mason realizes — tomorrow everyone will forget her. Everyone except him. In search of the girl, Mason and his friends find themselves in a dark version of Pearl — a ghostly city where the streets breathe cold, and the shadows whisper the names of the missing children. There, he learns about a witch who steals babies and hides them in her world. And the deeper the kids dive into this foreign reality, the clearer it becomes: saving Meg is just a small part of what’s at stake. The city is hungry. And this year, it wants more.