# The Haunted Storm > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/The_Haunted_Storm > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/The_Haunted_Storm.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Haunted_Storm > Source revision: 1345859324 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1972 novel by Philip Pullman This article needs more citations. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "The Haunted Storm" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (March 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message) First edition (publ. [New English Library](/source/New_English_Library)) ***The Haunted Storm*** (1972) is the debut novel of English author [Philip Pullman](/source/Philip_Pullman). It was a joint winner of the [New English Library](/source/New_English_Library)'s Young Writer's Award in 1972. Pullman later distanced himself from the work, saying "it was published by a publisher who didn't realise it wasn't a very good book", and as of 2016[\[update\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Haunted_Storm&action=edit), he omits it from his entry in *[Who's Who](/source/Who's_Who_(UK))*.[1] ## Characters - Matthew Cortez. - Elizabeth Cole. ## Plot summary Unease and suspicion divide a small village following violence and death. Matthew Cortez is physically involved in the investigation, finding his spiritual problems have a greater depth of reality. Only in the final disastrous confrontation in a ruined Mithraic temple does he, at last, glimpse the possibility of peace. The book was described by [Antonia Fraser](/source/Antonia_Fraser) as an "honest and enterprising attempt to interweave the eternal and immortal longings of youth into the texture of a contemporary story". [*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] ## Themes [Gnosticism](/source/Gnosticism). ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Gilmartin, Sarah (12 May 2016). ["'A novel I am prepared to repudiate': 10 books disowned by famous authors"](https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/a-novel-i-am-prepared-to-repudiate-10-books-disowned-by-famous-authors-1.2645294). *[The Irish Times](/source/The_Irish_Times)*. Retrieved 13 March 2024. - [Children and Young Adult Literature portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Children_and_Young_Adult_Literature) v t e Works by Philip Pullman Sally Lockhart The Ruby in the Smoke (1985) The Shadow in the North (1986) The Tiger in the Well (1990) The Tin Princess (1994) His Dark Materials Original novels Northern Lights (1995) The Subtle Knife (1997) The Amber Spyglass (2000) Companion books Lyra's Oxford (2003) Once Upon a Time in the North (2008) Serpentine (2020) The Book of Dust La Belle Sauvage (2017) The Secret Commonwealth (2019) The Rose Field (2025) Other The Haunted Storm (1972) Galatea (1978) Count Karlstein (1982) How to be Cool (1987) The Broken Bridge (1990) The Butterfly Tattoo (1992) The Firework-Maker's Daughter (1995) Clockwork (1996) I Was a Rat! or, The Scarlet Slippers (1999) The Scarecrow and his Servant (2004) The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ (2010) This article about a speculative fiction novel of the 1970s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information. See guidelines for writing about novels. Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page. - [v](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:1970s-specf-novel-stub) - [t](/source/Template_talk%3A1970s-specf-novel-stub) - [e](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:1970s-specf-novel-stub) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [The Haunted Storm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Haunted_Storm) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Haunted_Storm?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.