The Screaming Light: A Blacktide Files Mystery

By: Moss, Elliott

The fog always comes first. Then the screaming starts.

Something lives inside the old Blacktide Cove lighthouse. Something that feeds on metal.

When the town's brass weather vane vanishes after a night of shrieking fog, three seventh-graders known as the Fog Watch are the only ones who notice-or care. Finn, the skeptic with an audio recorder. Ruby, the history buff who believes every legend. And Cal, the artist whose sketches catch what their eyes miss.

Their investigation leads them inside the abandoned lighthouse tower, where they discover a creature unlike anything in the textbooks-and a hoard of stolen metal stretching back decades. But luring it out is only half the problem. What happens when you remove a predator from an ecosystem that's been built around it?

The Blacktide Files: The Screaming Light is the first book in a middle-grade mystery series for readers who love Goosebumps, Lockwood & Co, and towns with too many secrets.

For ages 8-12. No cliffhanger ending.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GMQKP2RK
• ISBN13: 9798247651628
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 106 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"