Straub, Peter
Summary: In the 1960's campus guru, Spenser Mallon, demands sexual favors of his young acolytes. After he invites his most fervent followers to attend a secret ritual in a local meadow, the only thing that remains is a gruesomely dismembered body and the shattered souls of all who were present. Years later one man attempts to write a book to try to understand what happened.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2010
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Summary: A son searches for his father before the father kills him in this spooky novel. The protagonist, jazz singer Ned Dunstant of Illinois, learns about his father from his mother on her deathbed. The father is a psychopathic killer with supernatural powers who considers his son a deadly danger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1999
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Summary: Willy Patrick finds her life intersecting with that of a stranger, Timothy Underhill, when she experiences an eerie event involving the death of her daughter and Timothy receives communications from dead people he had known in his youth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2004
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Summary: A boy, Keith Hayward, is drawn to an irresistible fascination with death and the taking of life. His Uncle Till, who has led a shadowy career as local celebrity "Ladykiller," recognizes his nephew's nature and tutors him in the art of doing ill without getting caught.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2010
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Summary: Old friends try to come to grips with the darkness of the past--a secret ritual that left behind a gruesomely dismembered body--and find themselves face-to-face with the evil they helped create.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2012
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Summary: Tim Underhill comes back to his hometown to investigate the murder of a childhood friend's wife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1993
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Summary: A collection of stories from the past twenty-five years includes "Mr. Club and Mr. Cuff," "The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine," and "Blue Rose."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2016
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Summary: "Nancy Underhill commits suicide for no apparent reason. A week later, her son--fifteen-year-old Mark--vanishes. The boy's uncle, novelist Timothy Underhill, searches his hometown of Millhaven for clues that might help unravel this horrible dual mystery. He soon learns that a pedophilic murderer is on the loose in the vicinity, and that shortly before Nancy's suicide, Mark had become...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003