Rees, Celia
Entry updated 22 September 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1949- ) UK teacher and author, most of whose work has been horror, usually supernatural, for Young Adult readers, including her first novel, The Bailey Game (1994), and her first series, the H.A.U.N.T.S. sequence beginning with H is for Haunting (1998) [series not listed in Checklist below]. She is of some sf interest for The Stone Testament (2007), whose young protagonist moves Equipoisally from a Near Future UK facing the End of the World into a past land under threat of terminal devastation from elder gods. Elements tonally adjacent to the Horror-In-Sf tale are complexified by the presence in the text of figures like Ambrose Bierce and Arthur Machen. [JC]
Celia Rees
born Solihull, West Midlands: 17 June 1949
works (highly selected)
- The Stone Testament (London: Scholastic, 2007) [illus/hb/Atomic Squib]
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