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Synopsis
Questions arise concerning the connections between a strangely detached young girl's captivity in a seedy Florida motel, a death that occurs at a party for a visiting actress, and a young California instructor's obsession with one of his students
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About the Author
Peter Straub is the New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen novels, including A Dark Matter. He has won the Bram Stoker Award for his novels Lost Boy Lost Girl and In the Night Room, as well as for his recent collection 5 Stories. Straub was the editor of the two-volume Library of American anthology The American Fantastic Tale. He lives in New York City.
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Stephen King The terror just mounts and mounts.
Chicago Sun-Times The scariest book I've ever read....It crawls under your skin and into your dreams.
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- PublisherCoward McCann Geoghegan
- Publication date1979
- ISBN 10 0224016865
- ISBN 13 9780224016865
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages512
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