The Power of Five

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The Power of Five
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UK logo for The Power of Five (as the series is known there)
Author Anthony Horowitz
CountryUnited Kingdom
Genre Fantasy, horror, thriller
Publisher Walker Books (UK)
Scholastic Corporation (US)
Published2005–2012
Media typePrint (hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-book
No. of books5

The Power of Five (known as The Gatekeepers in the US) is a series of five fantasy and suspense novels, written by English author Anthony Horowitz. Published between 2005 and 2012, it is an updated re-imagining of Horowitz's Pentagram series, which the author had left unfinished in the 1980s after he only wrote four of the five planned books in the series. The novels deal heavily in the occult and examples of things such as human sacrifice and blood rituals are major plot elements, such as in the first book, where Matthew Freeman is hunted by a Cult who want to conduct a blood sacrifice on him to blast open a portal using a combination of nuclear physics and black magic, to unlock another dimension which is holding a group of ancient evil demons captive. [1] [2]

Contents

The series is published in the United Kingdom by Walker Books Ltd and in the United States by Scholastic Press.

Plot overview

The series focuses on five children: Matthew Freeman, Pedro, Scott Tyler, Jamie Tyler, and Scarlett Adams, a group of five modern day teenagers with some sort of power who are expected to defeat the Old Ones and save humanity.

Books

Raven's Gate (2005)

Evil Star (2006)

Nightrise (2007)

Necropolis (2008)

Oblivion (2012)

List of characters

Adaptations

Walker Books has so far released graphic novel adaptations for the first three novels in the series, with all three being written by Tony Lee. Raven’s Gate was released on 3 August 2010, with Evil Star and Nightrise released on 2 January 2014 and 6 November 2014 respectively.

In 2012, Horowitz tweeted that he had finished writing a 99 page screenplay of Raven's Gate, describing it as “a bit like Terminator but with demons”. [3] In 2014, there were rumours that Warner Bros. have acquired the film rights to the book series, but Horowitz confirmed on Twitter a few years later that this wasn’t so. [4] As of 2021, despite Horowitz’s wishes and recent success with the Alex Rider series adaptation, there has been no further development as of yet on any possible film or TV adaptation of the Power of Five series. [5]

References

  1. ↑ Buckley, Chloe (2018). Twenty-first-century children's gothic : from the wanderer to Nomadic subject. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd. ISBN   978-1-4744-3017-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
  2. ↑ Jackson, Anna (27 March 2017). New Directions in Children's Gothic: Debatable Lands. Taylor & Francis. ISBN   978-1-317-44424-4.
  3. ↑ @AnthonyHorowitz (10 October 2012). "Finished screenplay of Raven's Gate last night. 99 pages. £30m? It's a bit like Terminator but with demons" (Tweet). Retrieved 19 January 2022– via Twitter.
  4. ↑ @AnthonyHorowitz (14 April 2019). "@cause_andrew @JinksJacobi There was a nibble - but not a bite. ☹️" (Tweet). Retrieved 19 January 2022– via Twitter.
  5. ↑ @AnthonyHorowitz (18 July 2021). "@ChristianGauci @TomEvans93 @netflix @PrimeVideo I agree. But so far not a whisper. 😩" (Tweet). Retrieved 19 January 2022– via Twitter.
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