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A hundred and fifty years ago, in the sleepy fishing village of Darkness Falls, Matilda Dixon would give the local children cakes and treats and accept their baby teeth as "payment." After her husband Sonny was killed in a boating accident and a kitchen fire left her horribly scarred, Matilda became a recluse -- but she still collected baby teeth, now leaving coins behind instead of treats. When two children went missing on their way to visit "the tooth fairy," the townspeople lynched Matilda in retaliation -- just as the two children turned up alive and well. Today, Kyle Walsh lives his life in fear, and has ever since he left Darkness Falls as a boy. Kyle is the only one who knows the truth -- that the spirit of Matilda Dixon has returned to exact her revenge. Now Kyle must return home to confront his troubled past and save his childhood sweetheart Caitlin and her younger brother Michael from "the tooth fairy" -- before she kills again!
- Sales Rank: #1095382 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Pocket
- Published on: 2002-11-26
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.60" h x .80" w x 4.20" l,
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 256 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
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Chapter One
1836
Matilda Dixon was baking a lemon cake when she was told that her husband was dead.
Until then, it had been the happiest day of her life. Every day was the happiest day of Matilda Dixon's life. It saved time and energy for more important things if she thought of it that way.
At first, she had thought the day she first met Captain Sonny Dixon to be the happiest day of her life.
That was later superseded by the day Sonny got down on his knee in the kitchen of Matilda's father's house and asked her to marry him.
That was, in turn, superseded by their wedding day, a glorious spring day in the field behind her father's house.
Then every day of their honeymoon became the happiest day.
Then the day they moved to Darkness Falls to-gether, with dreams of Sonny becoming a successful whaler dancing in their heads, buying the lovely small house on the edge of the woods near the lighthouse.
Then every day of their lives together.
Sonny had taken his boat out several weeks ago on a whaling expedition. Matilda had expected him to return within the week -- probably with another scrimshaw carving to add to the huge collection they had already amassed. Matilda had once joked, "When you grow tired of the sea, you can retire and be an artist."
"But my darling," Sonny had said with that wide smile that had so enchanted her, "I will never grow tired of the sea."
And then he would wrap his arms around her and pull her into an embrace. Mrs. Dixon stood a head shorter than Mr. Dixon, and so whenever they embraced, her head fit perfectly right under his chin, with his arms over her shoulders and her arms around his waist.
Of course, the real reason she wanted him to retire was so that they could have children. He kept promising her, "Just a few more trips at sea," before they would settle down to the business of a family. It was a sufficiently vague promise that did not actually bind Sonny to a particular time frame.
Matilda was, however, willing to wait. Sonny was worth it. Besides, he always kept his promises to her, even if he wasn't always quick about it. When they had first met, he had promised to make a scrimshaw with her face on it. Years went by, and she never saw it, but then, on their second wedding anniversary, he had presented it to her. "I may not be fast," he had said to her with that smile of his, "but I do get there in the end."
Most of Sonny's scrimshaws were displayed in various parts of their small house -- on the mantel, on the end tables, on the kitchen shelves. But the one of Matilda, based on a portrait done of her for her sixteenth birthday, had a place of pride on Matilda's nightstand. It was the first thing she saw when she woke up in the morning and the last thing she saw before going to sleep. During the long, lonely days when Sonny was at sea, it served as a reminder of him that she treasured.
The lemon cake she was making was intended for young Samantha Wellington, who was turning eight today. Samantha loved lemons, and Matilda knew that the young girl would be happy as a clam when Matilda took it by their house.
Assuming, of course, that the rain ever stopped.
The storm had gone on for several hours. Matilda had been glad that Sonny wasn't due back for a few more days. Even so, as the storm brewed, she put the lantern in the window. Normally, she waited until sundown, but there was no sun today, and she wanted to make sure that Sonny could find his way home on the off chance that he came home early.
Not that Sonny Dixon had ever been early for anything a day in his life. But Matilda always held out hope. Without hope, she would never have survived the long weeks without her husband.
The cake was in the oven, and Matilda was struggling to figure out how to transport it in the rain to the Wellington house without ruining it, when the knock came at the door.
It couldn't have been Sonny. It was, after all, his house.
"Coming!" she called out, and headed for the door. When she left the kitchen, a chill came over her. She assumed it to be just the cold, rainy weather seeping in through the walls of the old house, only noticed as she moved away from the warming glow of the oven.
Matilda opened the door only a crack, so as not to let any more of the cold and rain in.
She saw two smartly dressed men, wearing topcoats and hats to protect them from the elements. Matilda recognized them as two men from the town, Mr. Turley and Mr. Jefferson. Both good men; Matilda remembered that Sonny had spoken highly of Mr. Jefferson in particular.
"Mrs. Dixon," Mr. Jefferson said, removing his hat, despite the weather.
"Sorry, ma'am," Mr. Turley added. He declined to remove his headgear. Matilda couldn't bring herself to blame him. The rain had grown worse in the hours Matilda had spent in the kitchen working on the cake.
"Mrs. Dixon -- Matilda," Mr. Jefferson started, then stopped. He took a breath, put his top hat to his heart, looked down, and closed his eyes.
A fist of ice clenched Matilda Dixon's heart. There was simply no manner in which she could conceive that what Mr. Jefferson was about to convey was in any sense good news.
"I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this. Mr. Dixon's boat -- Sonny's boat -- they came up against something fierce out there. They don't think anyone survived." He finally looked up at her with pale blue eyes. "I'm sorry."
A female voice said, "That's quite all right, Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Turley. Thank you both for coming by to tell me this." Dimly, Matilda realized that it was her own voice doing the talking, though she had no conscious recollection of forming those words.
Sonny was dead.
She couldn't believe it.
She wouldn't believe it.
Mr. Turley finally spoke. "We're terribly sorry, Mrs. Dixon."
"Of course you are. You're good men, both of you," the female voice said. "Thank you."
"It's -- it's possible he may have survived," Mr. Jefferson said, "but we didn't think it would be fair to you to -- well -- "
"I understand, Mr. Jefferson. Thank you."
She closed the door on the two men.
In the back of her head, the same part that acknowledged that it was she herself who spoke to the two men, Matilda recognized that she should have invited the two men in. The Dixon house was right on the coast, near the lighthouse, and a far walk from the center of town. Both men would be cold and in dire need of shelter and perhaps a cup of tea.
But Matilda couldn't bear the idea of anyone in the house. Not now. Not knowing that Sonny would never set foot in it again.
"Just a few more trips at sea." That was what Sonny had said every time she had brought up the idea of having children, of having a family. Matilda had lived for the day when she could bake sweets for her own brood, had longed to hear the sounds of small feet pattering about their small home by the lighthouse, had desired so strongly to hear Sonny's voice telling them stories of his adventures on the sea.
Instead, he had one adventure too many.
She turned out the lantern in the living room window. Sonny would never need it to guide him home ever again.
"I may not be fast," he had said once, "but I do get there in the end."
Not this time, he didn't.
Or perhaps he did.
It all depended on how one looked at it, didn't it?
She went upstairs, the Wellington girl's lemon cake forgotten in the oven. She didn't look into the spare room that someday was going to be the nursery for their children. Instead, she went into the bedroom that she and Sonny had shared all too rarely. She walked over to the nightstand and picked up the scrimshaw with her face etched into the ivory.
The remnant of one of Sonny's more successful whaling expeditions, the ivory felt heavier in her hand than it ever had before.
How long she stared at the image of herself, she could not say. She had been prettier then, when she was sixteen. Sonny, of course, insisted that she grew more beautiful with each passing year.
But he was her husband. He was supposed to say things like that.
Besides, he also said that he would always come home to her.
She opened the slim drawer of the nightstand. Inside it lay several carefully folded handkerchiefs. After taking one of them out -- it was monogrammed with a lovely calligraphed "MD" -- she placed the scrimshaw in the drawer amidst the remaining kerchiefs and closed it.
To her surprise, there were no tears for her to wipe away with the handkerchief, as she would have thought. Still, she kept the kerchief handy in case any came.
She went back downstairs and sat in the living room, not bothering to light any lanterns, listening to the rain fall, staring at the scrimshaws all around the house, and not feeling the cold that hovered in the air as the storm intensified.
The lemon cake was ruined.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
GOOD MOVIE TIE-IN
By K. Jump
When young Kyle Walsh loses his last baby tooth, you-know-who comes to retrieve it that night. But this is a very different tooth fairy from the one who came to you and I. The spirit of an innocent woman murdered only because she was different, this tooth fairy is a malevolent specter hell-bent on avenging herself on the town of Darkness Falls by tormenting her killers' children. So instead of leaving Kyle a quarter under his pillow, she leaves him his mother's corpse and the murder rap to go with it.
Twelve years later, Kyle has grown up into a deeply disturbed man, one addicted to anti-psychotics and who always stays in the light...he's tried to put the past behind him, but an urgent phone call from his old girlfriend brings him back to Darkness Falls to face his fears once and for all...
Though Keith R.A. DeCandido's adaptation of the hit thriller doesn't quite match up to the movie in terms of tone, scares, or characterization, it is still a fun, fast book that has its share of high points and definitely makes you want to see the movie. One of the great things about this story is the protagonist, Kyle Walsh, a fully realized and empathetic man of flesh and blood who has lived his whole life in the shadows and struggles to break free. Also, "Darkness Falls" manages to avoid many of the horror genre's typical cliches--though the novelization does succumb to pattern a bit more frequently than the film. Still, a worthwhile read and a great take-off on a beloved fairy tale.
1 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Stay in the Light
By D. Davis
Let me start off the review by saying that I read the book before I saw the movie and in no way did the book make me not want to see the movie. So, I guess that's a good thing. Let me say next that the book is not scary in the least and at times is pourly written. The word choice is pour and some of the events that take place are done to fast and unclearly. But, those are the bad notes of the book; on the good notes, the book was written by an author who has also written a book based on the tv series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer...At times, the book is something well written that very much deserves to be read; it made me want to see the movie even more (.... So, pick up "Darkness Falls", it will at least make you wonder about The Tooth Fairy and "tricks of the light."
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
The Blair Witch has nothing on The Tooth Fairy
By A Customer
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Seriously, though, it's great to see a horror story come about where creating a frightening story is paramount over a body count.
The story itself, to me at least, seems a bit of a mixture of 'The Blair Witch' and 'Pitch Black'. Also, the main character is not a goody-goody, nor is he the typical bad [guy] anti-hero. Instead, he's just a normal guy who has been tormented for most of his life by images of the Tooth Fairy.
This book was such an easy and captivating read that I finished it one day, and I am eagerly looking forward to seeing it on the big screen.
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