Hoping to rekindle their troubled marriage, David and Ellen take a vacation at a lonely beachside cottage, but their efforts are thwarted by the appearance of a beautiful and sensual ghost, Marianna, whom David cannot resist.
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Richard Matheson was The New York Times bestselling author of I Am Legend, Hell House, Somewhere in Time, The Incredible Shrinking Man, A Stir of Echoes, The Beardless Warriors, The Path, Seven Steps to Midnight, Now You See It..., and What Dreams May Come, among others. He was named a Grand Master of Horror by the World Horror Convention, and received the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement. He has also won the Edgar, the Spur, and the Writer's Guild awards. In 2010, he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. In addition to his novels Matheson wrote several screenplays for movies and TV, including "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet," based on his short story, along with several other Twilight Zone episodes. He was born in New Jersey and raised in Brooklyn, and fought in the infantry in World War II. He earned his bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri. Matheson died in June, 2013, at the age of eighty-seven.
First published in 1982 in a version so heavily edited that horror writer Matheson (7 Steps to Midnight, 1993, etc.) took his name off it, this ghost story is now offered in a restored, uncut edition. Television scripter David and his wife, Ellen, have returned to New York's Logan Beach, the site of their honeymoon 21 years earlier. Things go wrong from the first. The cottage they remembered has been washed away by a hurricane, and its replacement is dusty, depressing, and abnormally cold--hardly the place to revive their troubled marriage. Ellen leaves their bed to walk on the beach, and David discovers he is not alone. The most beautiful woman he has ever seen tells him about her love for the artist who last rented the house. Both disturbed and enchanted by Marianna, David keeps her visit a secret. He tries to return her locket the next day, but finds only a boarded-up shack where her house should stand. Marianna returns to him, however, and while Ellen sleeps upstairs, the pair has wild sex. Ice-cold and completely drained after this encounter, David promises himself it won't happen again. But whenever Ellen falls asleep or leaves the house, Marianna arrives. David feels less in control each time they meet. Mrs. Brentwood, who lives in a nearby mansion, tells David that Marianna is dead and remains earthbound only to feed her degenerate passions. His neighbor urges him to flee before he is driven insane. As the evidence mounts up, David moves from outraged incredulity to belief and convinces Ellen they must leave the house. But Marianna steps in, and David must fight the erotic ghost who possesses him to save the woman he truly loves. A chilling supernatural sortie marred only by a self-important epilogue about the power of the mind and the true meaning of love. -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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