Illustrated by the film’s director
Hyperion has published a young adult illustrated novel based on Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark.
Guillermo del Toro wrote the book with Christopher Golden. Dark director Troy Nixey provided the illustrations.
Serving as a prequel, it takes place a hundred years before the movie begins. It chronicles the travels and adventures of Emerson Blackwood, a young nature scientist who begins to understand thereâs more to the world than science understands. He travels across the globe, learning more and more about the world of secret and dangerous creatures.
The book has two components – the sections that tell the story of Blackwood’s travels through the world, the people and creatures he encounters, and the increasing peril he finds himself in; and another set of sections which will show the illustrated “Field Guide to Dangerous Fairies” which Blackwood is creating.
Source: Hyperion
