This night will be bad and tomorrow will be beyond imagining. n n Its Midwinters Eve, the day before Wills eleventh birthday. But there is an atmosphere of fear in the familiar countryside around him. This will be a birthday like no other. Will discovers that he has the power of the Old Ones, and that he must embark on a quest to vanquish the terrifyingly evil magic of the Dark. n n The second novel in Susan Coopers highly acclaimed Dark is Rising sequence. n