书名：Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children 怪屋女孩/佩小姐的奇幻城堡

作者：Ransom Riggs 兰萨姆·里格斯

出版社名称：Quirk Books

出版时间：2013

语种：英文

ISBN：9781594746031

商品尺寸：13.2 x 2 x 20.8 cm

包装：平装

页数：384 （以实物为准）

Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children《怪屋女孩/佩小姐的奇幻城堡》是好莱坞奇幻大片《佩小姐的奇幻城堡》原著小说系列，为号称“丹·布朗第二”的英俊小生兰萨姆·里格斯奇幻大作，美媒称其为“很酷很恐怖的YA图书”！《纽约时报》年度十大重磅好书，《纽约时报》畅销系列，美国亚马逊网站连续半年的销售冠军，全球累计销量直逼《达·芬奇密码》《哈利·波特》，成为《哈利·波特》之后，“哈迷”非常喜爱的书！ 超过50幅古老而神秘的照片！每幅照片都是古老而真实的，每个相关表述都是真实的，美国专业团体纷纷按图索骥，重新探秘！ 媒体推荐 “有《X战警：第一战》遇见时间旅行的故事线、大卫·林奇式的想象、令人恐怖的情节、阴森怪诞的细节……难怪20世纪福克斯会迅速抢走它的电影版权，因为它本身就植入了电影改编的基因。”  ——美国《娱乐周刊》 “一部惊心动魄的、精彩感人的开创性小说。照片与文字完美结合，打造了一个令人难以忘怀的故事。毫不夸张地讲，你只要读了第一页，你就彻底放不下了。” ——《纸镇》《星运里的错》《寻找阿拉斯加》作者约翰·格林 “一本让人过目不忘的、非比寻常的书。作者以第一人称亮相既引人注目又有说服力，同时他巧妙地把每一个细节编织到整个故事当中——草蛇灰线，伏脉千里。照片贯穿小说始终，《怪屋女孩》是一本真正意义上大气、情节曲折而又充满惊喜的小说。适合任何年龄阶段的读者阅读。”  ——美国亚马逊 “没错, J.K.罗琳说‘哈利·波特’系列终结了，但是没关系，有其余书可以解决你们对魔法的需求。《怪屋女孩》就是悲伤的‘波特粉’的魔法之选。”  ——CNN 一次愉快而古怪的阅读旅程，角色成熟，关于威尔士的设置十分可信，还有一些十分可怖的怪物！” ——《出版人周刊》 “里格斯在幻想和现实间巧妙穿梭，用散文和摄影创建出一个迷人但有时也很可怕的故事。” ——美联社 “一部公然蔑视分类的原创作品，小说的第一部应该会很吸引那些喜欢古怪幻象的读者。里格斯在他不同寻常的小说里加进了一些至关重要的异能照片。” —— 《图书馆杂志》 The #1 New York Times Best Seller is now a major motion picture from visionary director Tim Burton, starring Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Ella Purnell, Samuel L. Jackson, and Judi Dench. Includes an excerpt from Hollow City and an interview with author Ransom Riggs A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow—impossible though it seems—they may still be alive.A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows. “A tense, moving, and wondrously strange first novel. The photographs and text work together brilliantly to create an unforgettable story.” — John Green, New York Times best-selling author of The Fault in Our Stars“With its X-Men: First Class-meets-time-travel story line, David Lynchian imagery, and rich, eerie detail, it’s no wonder Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children has been snapped up by Twentieth Century Fox. B+” — Entertainment Weekly“Peculiar’ doesn’t even begin to cover it. Riggs’ chilling, wondrous novel is already headed to the movies.” — People“You’ll love it if you want a good thriller for the summer. It’s a mystery, and you’ll race to solve it before Jacob figures it out for himself.” — Seventeen

一桩离奇的谋杀，一段诡异的遗言，一沓匪夷所思的照片，一个深陷迷局的男孩，一次孤岛追寻之旅，遗雾重重，惊悚又充满真情。 佛罗里达州男孩雅各布的爷爷离奇死去，留下支离破碎的怪异遗言。雅各布虽亲眼看见凶手，但同行的朋友却坚称没有看到。加之爷爷生前所讲的离奇故事以及所留下的照片，雅各布陷入了深深的困惑和担忧。但当他讲述所见事实，没有人相信，甚至将他送去进行精神治疗。 为了找出真相，为了证明自己是个正常人，为了证明自己对至亲的爷爷的信任没有错，他远赴威尔士，由此展开惊心动魄的时光穿越之旅并发现自己的异能人身份。 MISS PEREGRINE'S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN: A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in this groundbreaking novel, which mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling new kind of reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob Portman journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins ofMiss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. 

兰萨姆·里格斯（Ransom Riggs）是美国作家、旅行家、摄影爱好者。他出生于佛罗里达州，成长过程中一直偏好鬼故事和英式喜剧，这大概是他小说风格的成因。他是美国悬疑惊悚作家中熠熠生辉的新星，人称“丹·布朗”第二，加上外表英俊，里格斯红透美国。他的《怪屋女孩》系列是《纽约时报》畅销系列中的佼佼者，全球累计销量直逼《哈利·波特》《达·芬奇密码》。 Ransom Riggs is the author of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (Quirk, 2011), a New York Times best seller with more than 5 million copies sold, as well as its best-selling sequels Hollow City (Quirk, 2013) and Library of Souls (Quirk, 2015). He lives in Santa Monica, CA, with his wife. 

PrologueI had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of these came as a terrible shock and, like anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After. Like many of the extraordinary things to come, it involved my grandfather, Abraham Portman. Growing up, Grandpa Portman was the most fascinating person I knew. He had lived in an orphanage, fought in wars, crossed oceans by steamship and deserts on horseback, performed in circuses, knew everything about guns and self-defense and surviving in the wilderness, and spoke at least three languages that weren’t English. It all seemed unfathomably exotic to a kid who’d never left Florida, and I begged him to regale me with stories whenever I saw him. He always obliged, telling them like secrets that could be entrusted only to me. When I was six I decided that my only chance of having a life half as exciting as Grandpa Portman’s was to become an explorer. He encouraged me by spending afternoons at my side hunched over maps of the world, plotting imaginary expeditions with trails of red pushpins and telling me about the fantastic places I would discover one day. At home I made my ambitions known by parading around with a cardboard tube held to my eye, shouting, “Land ho!” and “Prepare a landing party!” until my parents shooed me outside. I think they worried that my grand father would infect me with some incurable dreaminess from which I’d never recover—that these fantasies were somehow inoculating me against more practical ambitions—so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn’t become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered. I’d been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated. I felt even more cheated when I realized that most of Grandpa Portman’s best stories couldn’t possibly be true. The tallest tales were always about his childhood, like how he was born in Poland but at twelve had been shipped off to a children’s home in Wales. When I would ask why he had to leave his parents, his answer was always the same: because the monsters were after him. Poland was simply rotten with them, he said.