You shouldn't have come in here. You could get lost. It has happened before. I'll tell you the story one day if you want to hear it.

In fairy tales there are people and wolves, beasts and dead parents, girls and forests. Ophelia knows all this, like every girl who has heard a bunch of stories. And she immediately understands what the smiling Captain is, with his impeccable uniform, boots and gloves: a wolf.

But nothing can prepare her for the terrible reality of the Captain's mysterious house, in the middle of a dense forest that hides many things: half-forgotten stories about lost babies, renegade resistance fighters hiding from the army, a labyrinth, beasts and fairies.

No one can keep Ophelia safe as the labyrinth calls her to her own story where the monstrous and the human are closely intertwined, where myths live with blood...

Oscar-winning Guillermo del Toro and bestselling author Cornelia Funke join forces to turn del Toro's film "Pan's Labyrinth" into an epic fantasy novel. In front of the readers opens a strange and magical world, full of incredible characters, like Pan's Labyrinth, mortal soldiers, monsters that eat children, courageous revolutionaries, and a lost princess who hopes to meet her family again.