Clockwork or All Wound Up: Philip Pullman

Tick, tick, tick, tock. Once you`ve wound some things up nothing can stop them...
It is a cold winter`s night when Karl enters the White Horse Tavern looking like he`s swallowed a thundercloud. His final task as a clockmaker apprentice is to make a new figure for the great clock of Glockenheim. He has not made the figure - or got any idea of what it could be, and the unveiling is tomorrow.
Fritz is also in the tavern; there to read aloud his new spooky story. Like Karl, he hasn`t finished. Well, he knows how the story starts and he knows it`s called Clockwork - so, with the snow swirling down outside, he sets his story going and just has to hope that the ending will come to him as he tells it.
Suddenly, Fritz`s story and real life merge in a completely sinister way - and just like clockwork it can`t be stopped...