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Illuminightmare

Explore the Supernatural with Your Magic Three-Colour Lens
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Illuminightmare takes young readers on a supernatural journey to explore the 10 most haunted places on Earth using a unique three-colour lens system. The green lens reveals the location and its surroundings, the red lens uncovers the rich history and real-life stories, and the blue lens unveils the supernatural secrets and ghosts that lurk in the shadows. With stunning interactive illustrations and fascinating folklore from across the globe, this follow-up to Illuminature and Illumanatomy blends history, mystery, and cultural wonders into an extraordinary haunted compendium.
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Illuminightmare is perfect for children curious about history, folklore, and the supernatural. Its interactive format engages young readers who enjoy exploring mysteries and haunted tales from around the world, making it ideal for fans of educational books with a spooky twist.

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Visit the most haunted places on Earth using your three-colour lens, the fourth book in the bestselling Illumi series from design duo Carnovsky.

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Set off on a supernatural journey to visit the most haunted places on Earth in this follow-up to the best-selling Illuminature, Illumanatomy, and Illuminatlas. Use your three-colour lens to explore each place: use the green lens to see the location, the red lens to see remnants from its history, and the blue lens to reveal the supernatural things that lurk behind the shadows. Packed with historical facts, rich folklore from around the world, and plenty of mystery, Milan-based design duo Carnovsky have created a haunted compendium like no other.

For thousands of years, people from every corner of the globe have told stories, folk tales, and legends about unnerving encounters with the supernatural. Often, a haunted place has a rich history we can see in our earthly world. And sometimes this history echoes on in the form of ghosts or supernatural spirits. Here, incredible interactive illustrations reveal the history and haunted secrets of the 10 most haunted places in the world:

Hermitage, Russia
St. Therese Shipwreck, Greece
Bran Castle, Romania
Salem, Massachusetts, USA
Tower of London, UK
Bhangarh Fort, India
Black Forest, Germany
San Juan Chamula Cemetery, Mexico
Picton, Australia
The Giza Pyramids, Egypt

Look through the green lens to see the place and its surroundings by day. See which plants and animals, buildings, and cultural artefacts you can spot on the map. Use the red lens to learn about the history and real-life inhabitants of this place. Then turn the page to learn more about the cultural highlights and natural wonders in the field guide. If you dare, look through the blue lens to reveal the hidden horrors, supernatural goings on, and ghosts who haunt this place.

There's so much more to the world around us than meets the eye.

Series: Illumi: See 3 Images in 1

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    In Illumipedia, discover animals, insects, dinosaurs, and the ocean deeps with your three-colour lens as you explore the world and its natural phenomena like never before. Bringing together content from five books in the iconic Illumi series, this new treasury spans the best of Nature, Oceans, Bugs, and Dinosaurs across six continents. Each spectacular artwork is really three images in...
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  • Illumanatomy
    Look inside the human body with the magic three-colour lens in this follow-up to the internationally best-selling Illuminature. X-ray the body from head to toe and discover how your body works. Use the red lens to reveal the skeleton, look through the green lens to see how the muscles work, and X-ray your organs with the blue lens to discover...
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    The ocean is a big, mysterious place. With the magic three-colour lens included in Illuminoceans, shed some light on the darkest depths of our watery world, and encounter the creatures, seascapes, and surprising underwater features of all of Earth's oceans. From the mighty Pacific to the polar seas, Illuminoceans takes readers on a journey of discovery through the most mysterious...
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  • Illuminightmare
    Set off on a supernatural journey to visit the most haunted places on Earth in this follow-up to the best-selling Illuminature, Illumanatomy, and Illuminatlas. Use your three-colour lens to explore each place: use the green lens to see the location, the red lens to see remnants from its history, and the blue lens to reveal the supernatural things that lurk...
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  • Illumibugs
    Journey through the undergrowth with your magic three-colour lens (included) and discover over 180 minibeasts from every continent, under the sea and even from prehistoric times. Invertebrates make up nearly 97% of life on earth! With your lens in hand, discover mini beast habitats, and learn more about the impressive insects and other creepy crawlies that scuttle and wriggle around...
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    Journey back in time to the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods with Illumisaurus, coming face-to-face with prehistory's most spectacular dinosaurs, plants, and animals. Bring this lost world to kaleidoscopic life with your magic three-colour viewing lens (included). With your lens in hand, discover amazing places and the creatures that roamed them many millions of years ago. Your green lens reveals...
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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781786035462

Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 October 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wide Eyed Editions

Illustration: color illustrations

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Carnovsky

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 280.0mm

Height: 340.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 64

About the Author

Lucy Brownridge is an author and editor of children's books based in London. She writes books for children about history of art, history, animals and science. She has an MA in history of art from the Courtauld Institute of Art and a BA in history of art from the University of Bristol.
Milan-based design duo CARNOVSKY was started by Silvia Quintanilla and Francesco Rugi in 2007. They have gained wide recognition for their RGB project, first displayed in 2010. Their work has been published in magazines around the world. Their wallpaper Jungla won the 2012 Wallpaper Magazine Design Award for Best Wallpaper.

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