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With these haunting words laid out like a feast of uncertainty and doom, Maggie Stiefvater launches a new telling of an old tale inspired by elements of Celtic mythology, legends of the water horses, and her own imagination.Īnd nothing had ever been more beautiful, or fearsome, or bizarre.Įach October, dread settles over the island of Thisby, as The Scorpio sea throws capaill uisce-commonly known as water horses-onto its shore, and a hint of fear mingles with the ocean breeze as the dreamlike unreality of such delectable creatures warries with the gruesome truth of their deadly nature. “ It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.”