The Haunting (Mahy novel)

The Haunting

First edition
Author	Margaret Mahy
Country	New Zealand
Language	English
Genre	Children's supernatural fiction, ghost story
Publisher	J. M. Dent
Publication date	August 1982
Media type	Print
Pages	135 pp (first edition)
ISBN	0-460-06097-X
OCLC	476531256
LC Class	PZ7.M2773 Hau[1]

The Haunting is a low fantasy novel for children written by Margaret Mahy of New Zealand and published in 1982, including a U.K. edition by J. M. Dent. Atheneum published the first U.S. edition in 1983.^[1]

Mahy won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject.^[2]

Plot introduction

Barney Palmer, a shy eight-year-old boy, discovers that one person in each generation of his family has had supernatural gifts – and this generation it seems to be him. He believes he is haunted by the ghost of an uncle he never met, and is oppressed by his fate. However, his sister Tabitha is determined to help him.

Essays

• Symposium papers including: "Some Operations of Truth: A personal response to Margaret Mahy's The Haunting" by John McKenzie, a paper presented at a Margaret Mahy Symposium in Christchurch in 2006.
• "Feminism, Freud and the Fairytale: Reading Margaret Mahy's The Haunting" by C. Marquis, Landfall, No. 162, 1987 pp. 186–205.

References

1. "The haunting" (U.S. edition). Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 2012-07-26.
2. (Carnegie Winner 1982). Living Archive: Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners. CILIP. Retrieved 2012-07-26.

External links

• The Haunting in libraries (WorldCat catalog) —immediately, first US edition
• Margaret Mahy at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database