The Midnight Children: The Cemetery House

What do you do
when strange things happen around you?

The
Midnight Children trilogy is a series of dark fantasy novels for children age
8-13 combining Asian mythology and Gothic elements.

The characters,
ten-year-old Min and twelve-year-old Zak are the main protagonists. In The
Midnight Children- Cemetery House, Min and her mother move into Cemetery
House with the distasteful Uncle Obb. Zak has been taken to the Moonlight
Lands but flees from the oily creatures on a boat. He finds help at a
river-side village but is betrayed by a village shaman and is almost trampled
by a man-horse. Min, in the meantime, discovers a book and using its magic
brings Zak back. They meet Shaz, the shaman, once again in the cemetery and
he gives them a magic bottle.

After almost being killed by a vampire, Min and
Zak learn that their mother is in hospital but, before they can visit her,
Uncle Obb locks them in a dog cage so that the oily creatures can kidnap them
that night. Zak kills the two oily creatures using the magic bottle but Uncle
Obb kidnaps Min at knifepoint and takes her to the Moonlight Lands.