The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do. But it isn'�t the monster Conor'�s been expecting. He'�s been expecting the one from his nightmare, the one he�s had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming.� The monster in his back garden, though, this monster is something different. Something ancient, something wild. And it wants the most dangerous thing...