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In the Dark of the Night
John Saul
Ballantine
July 2007
On Sale: June 26, 2007
416 pages
ISBN: 0345487028
EAN: 9780345487025
Mass Market Paperback (reprint)
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Thriller Psychological
Summer vacation becomes a season in hell for an ordinary
family who unwittingly stir something invisible,
insidious, and insatiable from its secret slumber–
unleashing a wave of horror only the darkest evil could
create, that only a master of spine-tingling terror like
John Saul could orchestrate. For deep in the shadows in
the dark of the night lurks something as big as life . . .
and as real as death.
It has waited seven years for
someone to come back to the rambling lakeside house called
Pinecrest, which has stood empty since its last owner went
missing. For upscale Chicago couple Dan and Merrill
Brewster, the old midwestern manse is an ideal retreat,
and for their kids, Eric and Marci, it’s the perfect place
to spend a lazy summer exploring. Which is how Eric and
his teenage friends discover the curious cache of
discarded objects stowed in a hidden room of Pinecrest’s
carriage house. The bladeless hacksaws, shadeless lamps,
tables with missing legs, headless axe handle, and other
unremarkable items add up to a pile of junk. Yet someone
took the trouble to inventory each worthless relic in a
cryptic ledger. It has all the makings of a great mystery–
whispering, coaxing, demanding to be solved.
But
the more the boys devote themselves to restoring the
forgotten possessions and piecing together the puzzle
behind them, the more their fascination deepens into
obsession. Soon their days are consumed with tending the
strange, secret collection–while their nights become
plagued by ever more ghastly dreams, nightmares that soon
seep into reality. And when a horrifying discovery
surfaces, so does the chilling truth–about the terrifying
events that rocked the town seven years before, the
mysterious disappearance of Pinecrest’s last resident, and
a twisted legacy with a malevolent life of its own . . .
and a bottomless hunger for new victims.
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