by Michael Ende
First published 1994
It's New Year's Eve, and sorcerer Beelzebub Preposteror and his wicked aunt Tyrannia Vampiretta have until midnight to complete a pact with the Prince of Darkness. If they fail, the world as we know it will be destroyed. But they have an unlikely pair of allies - Beelzebub's mischievous cat Mauricio and Tyrannia's scruffy raven Jacob - who will risk everything to stop the looming apocalypse. In a frantic race against time, the fate of the world hangs in the balance.
Genres: satire, fantasy, comedy, dark-fantasy
Vibes: dark, suspenseful, whimsical
Tropes: enemies-to-allies, race-against-time
288 pages · Paperback · Scholastic Hippo