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In a flashback to Violet’s parents’ disappearance, her dad comes to believe that Eels could be responsible for the infant Violet’s disappearance.We lived by the sea at one time and when the tourists have gone it’s a completely different place usually much more exciting. Sebastian Eels’ plan for the malamander is to “put a dozen harpoons through its stinking fish guts before it can even spit.

If you are under 16, please obtain your parent/guardian’s permission before submitting or ask your parent/guardian to submit on your behalf. We’ve had the pleasure of working with Thomas in our short story “No Man’s Land’ and we are pleased to have created resources for his AMAZING book Malamander. Destined to be a five book series, the ‘Eerie-on-Sea Mysteries’ can be read independently from each other.The malamander’s egg is central to many of the characters’ motivations, and Taylor’s story touches on the harmful nature of greed that has lasting effects it can have on others. Afterwards they’ll take you to Seegol’s Diner, on the lonely pier, for the best fish-and-chips in Eerie-on-Sea. Violet discusses the legend of the malamander, including its annual move “near the town to hunt” and lay its egg, which it then “devours. After Boat Hook Man was attacked by the malamander, Herbie describes that the creature’s victim “looks awful, his twisted body half submerged, his skin raked over with great gashes and slashes. Erwin the cat protects them by “attacking the old mariner’s head ferociously, raking at [Boat Hook Man] with his claws.