Picking up where ‘Peter and the Morgue’ left off, Peter is stuck at home recovering from frostbite. Since he can’t leave the house, and without a TV to entertain them, the boys decide to explore the mansion. On the 2nd floor they find a mysterious room that seems to bend space and time.

Something from the room follows them home, although the boys don’t realize it at first. Peter doesn’t notice anything strange until the next morning, when he wakes up to find all his homework done, the house cleaned, and a massive breakfast laid out on the table. A few days of this and grandfather confirms they have been invaded by fairies – specifically brownies.

Brownies aren’t dangerous, unless you don’t follow the rules, which grandfather forgets to tell Dill and Peter. Now the fairies are on the attack and its up to Peter and Dill to save grandfather.

I really enjoyed this one. Dill hams it up as always, and I loved the brownies. Grandfather plays a bigger role in this story than normal, giving Peter and Dill a history of the room as he knows it as well as the story of his first and only venture into fairyland.

This story has plenty of action, despite take place mostly in Peter’s house. My only complaint is that so far we haven’t seen much of Gwen in the stories lately, although she does at least play a small part in this story. ( )