For Fear of the Night - Hardcover

Grant, Charles L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312930461 ISBN 13: 9780312930462

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1988

Synopsis

After an amusement-pier fire takes the life of young Julie Ettler, freelance photographer Devin Graham hears her voice on his answering machine and learns of the horrible deaths of people she knew.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

The ability to discover terror in unexpected contexts may not be unique after years of Hitchcock and Stephen King, but Grant's horror novels are distinguished by their sense of place and their fluid, rhythmic prose. The setting this time is a New Jersey resort town at summer's end. Photographer Devin Graham and a group of teenagers about to leave for college are just getting over the death of their mutual friend Julie Etlerin a fire at an amusement park on the pierwhen Julie starts reappearing among them, a shadowy figure, a voice on the answering machine. This story doesn't jell as well as some of Grant's previous work. While the interior monologues are evocative, it is often difficult to designate one character's stream of consciousness from another's. What's more, the chills that are so effective when they seem to indicate an inexplicable source are dissipated in a rather disappointing moralistic ending.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

As Labor Day approaches four, inhabitants of a New Jersey shore town are preoccupied with upcoming changes in their lives, as well as with questions regarding the death of their mustual friend, Julie Etler, in a fire in a horror house on an amusement pier. The questions multiply when one friend, Devin Graham, receives a message on his answering machine from Julie and when another sees her on the beach. Other inexplicable accidents and deaths compel Devin to explore the burned horror house. Unfortunately, the well-crafted characterizations and foreboding atmosphere are weakened by the less-than-satisfying denouement.V. Louise Saylor, Eastern Washington Univ. Lib., Cheney
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0312930461
• ISBN 13: 9780312930462
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 277