Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.7
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
46457
Points per Word
0.000172
Page Count
243
Points per Page
0.032922
Description
One stormy night, in their family's deserted Cornwall inn, twelve-year-old Ethan and his sister, Cathy, shelter a mysterious guest, who indulges their love of the macabre by telling horror stories of the sea. The plot contains descriptions of violence.