Raven’s Gate

1. Raven’s Gate Anthony Horowitz

2. Plot • Matt Freeman is a fourteen year old boy who lives in Ipswich with his aunt, Gwenda Davis. • While living with his aunt, he breaks into a warehouse with his “friend”, Kelvin • After they get caught, Matt is sent to Yorkshire on the L.E.A.F Project, which involves sending troubled children into the countryside to get away from city temptations

3. Plot cont. • Matt's foster parent is a woman named Jayne Deverill, who lives on a farm with a strange farmhand named Noah • When Matt goes down to the nearby village on an errand for Mrs. Deverill he receives a warning from an odd man. He warns him to get away from Lesser Malling before it is too late

4. Plot cont. • So Matt tries to escape, and while trying to find some money he goes into Mrs. Deverill's bedroom and finds a copy of the police report detailing his parents' deaths and his “special” powers. • Matt tries to escape Hive Hall by stealing Mrs. Deverill's bike

5. Plot cont. • He tries to ride away, but finds it impossible to escape, because which ever way he goes, he always ends up back at the same intersection in the forest he started at. • He hears strange whispers and sees a light in the trees. • After a while, he discovers Omega One, an abandoned nuclear power station.

6. Plot cont. • In the woods, he meets the odd man from Lesser Malling again. The man introduces himself as Tom Burgess. He gives Matt a charm that prevents him from going in circles like before, and tells Matt to meet him at his house the next day. • Matt visits his house the next day and finds Tom Burgess murdered, with the words "Raven's Gate" painted on the wall in red. Matt runs away as fast as possible, then finds the police and tells them what he saw.

7. Plot cont. • They go back to the house where a woman named Miss Creevy says that Tom Burgess has gone to work with his sheep. He shows the police officers the scene where he saw Tom Burgess's body, but finds nothing. The words painted on the wall have been painted over! • To get information about Raven's Gate, he finds a book by someone called Elizabeth Ashwood, but the chapter on Raven's Gate is ripped out.

8. Plot cont. • When he searches on the Internet, an “IM” box appears, and a man called Professor Sanjay Dravid talks to him. • The librarian them tells Matt to go to the Greater Malling Gazette to find articles on Raven's Gate, and there he meets Richard Cole, a journalist working there.

9. Plot cont. • Matt tells his story to him, but Cole doesn't believe him. And when he leaves the Gazette he finds Mrs. Deverill waiting for him with Noah. They forcefully take Matt back to Hive Hall. • Later that night he sees Omega One glowing again.

10. Plot cont. • Matt knows something is going on and explores the woods. • Near the station he finds an old witchcraft ceremony going on with everybody in Lesser Mallinginvolved! • The power station lights are coming on and men are carrying supplies into the building.

11. Plot cont. • Just then, Matt gets found! • Then MrsDeverill summons some dog-like things from a fire to kill Matt. • While Matt is being chased, he slips into a bog and begins to sink. • Richard Cole arrives and rescues him(Matt used his powers to call him).

12. Plot cont. • Richard now believes Matt's story because he remembers Omega One and says there were sections of the story he "couldn't get out of his head". • Then Matt and Richard try to seek out a man who was on the committee that built the mysterious building.

13. Plot cont. • They find him and start talking to him. • They get some answers, but not a lot. • Then they find the author of the book about Raven’s Gate. • She then tells them to go talk to Professor Sanjay Dravid. • He tells them about the “Old Ones” and about the secret society he is in.

14. Plot cont. • Sanjay wants the society to protect Matt. • But before he can contact them, everything in the museum comes to life and they killed Sanjay! • So Matt and Richard take his keys and make their way to the exit. • Richard is trapped by a dinosaurs'srib cage and then crushed by a rafter. • Matt is recaptured by MrsDeverill, who is responsible for the attack.

15. Plot cont. • Matt wakes in the barn at Hive Hall, and to escape he slowly removes the floorboards in his room with a makeshift chisel. • When Noah enters the room to take Matt to Mrs. Deverill, he falls through the hole made by Matt, which was covered by a rug, and dies because he fell on his sickle.

16. Plot cont. • Matt runs away to the road, and a car comes towards him. • It is the nuclear scientist who built Omega One, Sir Michael Marsh. • But then, Matt realizes that Sir Michael is a traitor, working with the inhabitants of Lesser Malling, and Sir Michael.

17. Plot cont. • Matt is taken inside Omega One, and realizes that it was built where Raven's Gate once stood. • Richard Cole survived the situation at the museum and has been captured by the witches. • They are taken to the inner sanctum, where Matt and the villagers are held in a magical protective circle, but Richard is left outside it to die.

18. Plot cont. • Michael Marsh reveals that he needs Matt's blood to complete the black magic ritual that will open Raven's Gate. • Marsh is about to stab the knife into Matt when Matt focuses on his powers and surprisingly stops the knife. • He defeats Marsh and frees himself and Richard.

19. Plot cont. • They escape to the lower levels of the power station but are followed by MrsDeverill. She knocks out Richard and is about to kill Matt when Richard recovers and shoves her into a pool of acid! • Then they escape from Omega One by jumping into an underground river under the building

20. Plot cont. • Back in the inner sanctum, the station's levels are at critical mass. The villagers panic and run out of the protective circle, killing them all and leaving Michael Marsh alone. • Marsh then realises there is a tiny drop of Matt's blood on the knife and stabs down with the knife, causing Raven's Gate to break and explode open.

21. Plot cont. • The King of the Old Ones climbs out of the portal and crushes Sir Michael to death. • The power station then overloads and explodes, but all the heat and radiation is sucked into the gate, taking the Old Ones with it. • The portal and the Gate are sealed and the Old Ones are once again trapped in their separate dimension(Where they belong!!!). • Matt ends up living with Richard in York.