The Dark Garden — Peter Lancett

The Dark Man has been captured. He hangs by a rope from an ancient tree. Before the sun rises, the Shadow Masters will drain him of his power. But there is a little girl in the garden. Can she help him? Who is the Dark Man? He is a hero who lives in the shadows. He shuns society. In the fight between good and evil, the Dark Man works for good. His continuing mission is to seek the Golden Cup, but he must continually fight the Shadow Masters who seek the cup in order to spread evilwar, pestilence, famine, and misery. The Dark Man can never rest. The story text is short and simple but not patronizing. Stories are gritty, full of tension and mystery. The language is terse. The Dark Man is a serious comic hero with his own mythology. Each book is a self-contained story, but each story is a part of a greater whole. Although each novel reveals a little more about the Dark Man, the eighteen books can be read in any order: no one story depends on having read another first.