Product Description

In Antebellum New Orleans, Delphine Lalaurie inflicted unspeakable acts upon her slaves in the house at 1140 Rue Royale. now their tortured souls are seeking revenge on the house's new occupants, an elderly woman named Victorian and her young niece Rebecca. Rebecca must fight for their lives as she learns of the house's horrifying past, encounters monstrous nuns with a deadly secret in the attic of their convent, and becomes possessed by one of the spirits in her new home. WIth the knowledge this spirit gives her, Rebecca realizes she must help the victims of Madame Lalaurie find peace. Serena Valentino weaves a tale of horror and intrigue and Crab Scrambly illustrates with keen attention to detail in Nightmares and Fairy Tales: 1140 Rue Royale.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #46115 in Books
• Published on: 2007-04-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

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• ISBN13: 9781593620653
• Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
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From Booklist
Victorian-era New Orleans is the setting for this chilling ghost story. It starts, as so many such stories do, with a house. Rebecca moves into it with her aunt Victoria, and it doesn't take long at all for the pair to suspect that the rumors of haunting ghosts might be true. Frightened and tormented by the spirits of slaves murdered by their owners, Rebecca is drawn into a mystery that reveals the history of not only the house but also her aunt. The third Nightmares & Fairy Tales arc sparkles with gothy spookiness. Valentino's unhurried storytelling allows readers to get caught up in the tale and the atmosphere of 1140 Rue Royale. Scrambly's art--lots of crosshatched shadows and Tim Burton-esque angles--complements the narrative with a dark ambience and stylish exaggeration that are reminiscent of Edward Gorey. Tina Coleman
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Customer Reviews

Not as good
All right the first two books were amazing this one takes some getting used to. Don't get me wrong their still good. but instead of lots of differnt stories it's one long one. The illustrator is different also.
at frist I thought I wouldn"t like it but after reading it again it grew on me. It's still just as dark and twisted just like we like it.

Disappointing
After reading volume 1 and 2 of Nightmares and Fairy Tales, I was excited about the third instalment. But, after the first few pages I became disappointed in not only the childish artwork, but the story line.
Don't get me wrong, I like Crab Scrambly very much, but his work seems childish when compared to the detail of FSC. Mr Scrambly's work doesn't seem to fit the story at all, in my opinion. Another flaw is with the storyline it's self. Serena Valentino has said she'll release only one more volume after this. So, I was hoping this would shed some light on the creator of Annabell (as Annabell promised in the first volume, she would tell the tale of her maker) and how she escaped from Dominique, or what about Jillian's tale, or how Aunt Bea found Annabell.
I can only say that unless you are a hardcore fan, don't bother with this volume. It hardly includes Annabell to begin with!

An interesting diversion from the usual theme
Serena Valentino's wonderfully macabre series Nightmares & Fairytales takes a different turn in this volume. Where previous volumes had several different stories per chapter, all tied in by the tortured tale teller Annabelle, this story takes up the entire volume & is told in first person by the main character. (Annabelle makes a cameo, but isn't really in this volume.)

The story surrounds Rebecca and her aunt Victoria as they move into a beautiful & spooky old mansion in the heart of New Orleans. Soon after they move in however, ghosts start to haunt them... with aunt Victoria as their main target. With ghosts around every corner & a troop of menacingly demonic seeming nuns, Rebecca will be hard pressed to keep her wits (and her skin) about her!

Like other users have said, this volume takes a bit of getting used to. Not only is the storytelling so drastically different, but the artwork is also quite different from the last two volumes. The artwork in this volume is more broody & gothic, which frankly suits the story much better than if they were to have kept the more lighthearted stylings of the previous volumes. The storyline is the biggest change, with it stretching over one whole volume as opposed to the usual one chapter. While this serves the story very well, at the same time there's a few areas it seemed like the plotline was stretched a little too thin for all of the chapters. Still, the flaws of this volume are very thin & most fans will enjoy this volume. Some fans will miss the fairytale edge of the last few volumes, but most will be willing to give this volume the chance it deserves.

4.5/5