Darkness

Informationen zum Autor John Saul ’s first novel,  Suffer the Children , was an immediate million-copy bestseller. His other bestselling suspense novels include  Perfect Nightmare , Black Creek Crossing , and  The Presence. He is also the author of the  New York Times  bestselling serial thriller  The Blackstone Chronicles , initially published in six installments but now available in one complete volume. Saul divides his time between Seattle and Hawaii. Klappentext Villejeune, Florida. A secluded little town at the edge of a vast, eerie swamp. Far from prying eyes. Far from the laws of civilization. Here folks live by their own rules -- dark rites of altars and infants, candles and blood. Years ago the Andersons left town with a dream. Now they are back. To live out a nightmare. Something has been waiting for them. Something unspeakably evil. It feeds on the young and the innocent. And soon it will draw their teenage daughter into its unholy embrace....Kelly Anderson could feel his presence close by, feel him searching for her, reaching out to her.   He’d been there, usually hovering just out of sight, for as long as Kelly could remember. Even when she’d been a tiny baby, long before she could walk or talk, she’d caught glimpses of him.   In her dreams, his face would come to her out of the darkness of sleep, leering at her, horrible features twisted into a malicious smile, his fingers—the clawed talons of a carnivorous bird—stretching toward her. She would awaken screaming, and her mother would hurry to her, lifting her from her crib, cradling her, soothing her, whispering to her that she was safe.   Those words were the first she learned.   You’re safe.   Safe.   Even now, at sixteen, she could remember speaking the word.   Safe.   But she hadn’t been safe. Not then, when her mother had whispered to her that everything was all right, that she’d only had a terrible dream, and not now, when even wide awake she could feel him creeping closer to her, reaching out, reaching.…   For what?   What was it he wanted from her?   She knew nothing about the monstrous figure of her nightmares; had no idea who he was, nor where he’d come from.   All she knew was that he was there, never far from her. Waiting. And he wanted something.   Tonight, as Kelly moved restlessly around the small house she shared with her parents, she knew he was closer than ever.   It was an oppressive night, unseasonably hot for early June, the kind of thick, muggy night that hung heavily, threatening to suffocate her. She’d opened the windows an hour before in the vain hope that even the faintest of breezes might stir the air, might cool her skin, might even drive away the madness that threatened to destroy her tonight.   She knew that’s what it was.   There was no man; there were no hands reaching out to her. It was in her mind, all of it.   That’s what she’d been told, first by her mother, and then by the doctors her mother had taken her to.   The man who pursued her, who skulked eternally on the fringes of her life, existed only in her own mind. She’d made him up sometime long ago, and should have forgotten him, too, sometime almost as long ago.   She’d talked to the doctor for an hour a week, and tried to do what he’d told her, tried to figure out why she might have invented the man. For a long time the doctor had insisted that it was because she was adopted, telling her that she was imagining a father to replace the real father she’d never known. Kelly hadn’t believed him—after all, if she was going to create a father, he wouldn’t be anything like the terrible image she saw in her dreams. And why wouldn’t she have imagined a mother, too? Besides, she’d seen the man long before she’d ever known she was adopted, long before she’d beg...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: John Saul, SAUL JOHN
• Editore: Bantam Books USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.05.1992
• EAN: 9780553297263
• ISBN: 978-0-553-29726-3
• Pagine: 400
• Dimensioni: 108 mm x 178 mm x 19 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; FICTION / Occult & Supernatural, FICTION / Horror, Horror & ghost stories, Horror and supernatural fiction