TY - BOOK AU - Higgins,F E TI - LUNATIC'S CURSE: Tales from the sinister city SN - 9780330453622 U1 - CS-F PY - 2010////01/01 CY - London PB - Pan Macmillan KW - Childrens Fiction KW - Psychiatric hospitals -- Juvenile fiction KW - Blessing and cursing -- Juvenile fiction KW - Secrecy KW - Children's stories KW - Suspense fiction KW - Fathers and sons -- Juvenile fiction N1 - Summary: The town of Opum Oppidulum is home to the freezing Lake Beluarum and its rumored monster. On an island at the center of the lake is an asylum from which no one has ever escaped. So how will Rex, whose father, Ambrose Grammaticus, has been imprisoned there under false pretenses, prove that Ambrose is not insane? And if Rex can free his father, will his evil stepmother drive them both to madness? ER -