Dont Be Afraid of the Dark: Blackwoods Guide to Dangerous Fairies is a dark and disturbing illustrated novel based on the world of Guillermo del Toros film Dont Be Afraid of the Dark. Taking place a hundred years before the movie begins, the book chronicles the travels and explorations of Emerson Blackwood, a young and ambitious natural scientist who quickly discovers there is a mysterious world beyond what his education and peers understand. Follow Blackwood as he travels, discovering more and more about this secret world and the creatures that inhabit it -- creatures that Blackwood quickly realizes are just as interested in him as he is in them, particularly a long-lived and dangerous group of beings that have had centuries of encounters with humanity, creatures that live by eating enamel and bone.... The book, co-written by del Toro and the award-winning Christopher Golden, features illustrations by the director of Dont Be Afraid of the Dark, Troy Nixey.