An unflinching, darkly funny, and deeply moving story of a boy, his seriously ill mother, and an unexpected monstrous visitor.

At seven minutes past midnight, thirteen-year-old Conor wakes to find a monster outside his bedroom window. But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting-- he's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the nightmare he's had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments. The monster in his backyard is different. It's ancient. And wild. And it wants something from Conor. Something terrible and dangerous. It wants the truth. From the final idea of award-winning author Siobhan Dowd-- whose premature death from cancer prevented her from writing it herself-- Patrick Ness has spun a haunting and darkly funny novel of mischief, loss, and monsters both real and imagined.

派崔剋·奈斯（Patrick Ness）

1971年生於美國維吉尼亞州貝爾沃堡陸軍基地，6歲之前在夏威夷度過。之後和傢人移居華盛頓州，從小最大的嗜好就是編故事。大學就讀美國南加大英語文學係。在牛津大學教授創意寫作三年，他的學生往往比這位老師年紀還大。他還為英國最大的報紙諸如《泰晤士報》《每日電訊報》《衛報》等專業媒體撰寫書評。《惡魔呼喚》是他的第二部青少年小說創作，齣版後獲得廣大迴響，橫掃歐美各大文學奬項，並被眾多雜誌報紙推選為最佳書籍。此外，他身上有個犀牛紋身，跑過兩次馬拉鬆，是具有專業水準的潛水員，曾被電影學院錄取，但為瞭學習寫作而放棄這個機會。