If you open your house to strangers, who knows who might come in. And what they might be after. Or whom. Now, ponder the unthinkable and surrender to your darkest dread, as sinister storyteller extraordinaire John Saul weaves a heart-stopping tale of lurking terror and twisted intent.
Every parent s nightmare becomes reality for Kara Marshall when her daughter, Lindsay, vanishes from her bedroom during the night. The police suspect that the girl is just another moody teenage runaway, angry over leaving behind her school and friends because her family is moving. But Lindsay s recent eerie...

Now, for the first time, the New York Times bestselling serial thriller is complete in one terrifying volume. John Saul, the master of supernatural suspense, John Saul, brings to chilling life the small New England town of Blackstone--and the secrets and sins that lay buried there. . . .

From atop Blackstone's highest hill, the old Asylum casts its shadow over the village. Built in the 1890s to house the insane, the Asylum has stood vacant for decades. But now, the wrecker's ball is about to strike--and unleash an ominous evil. Strange gifts begin to appear on the doorsteps of...

Lush, a deceptively tranquil, the secluded island basks in splendid isolation off the South Carolina coast--as does the Devereaux mansion, a once-great plantation house now crumbling amidst the ancient oaks. Now, for the first time in two decades, Kevin Devereaux has returned here with his wife and children to visit Kevin's hated, and frightening mother. She said she was ill--but is that really why the old woman has summoned the son she has not seen in so many years? Suddenly, horribly, one of the Devereauxs is going to die. And now, all the dark secrets of this once-proud family will emerge...

A horror story set in New England. Built on top of the hill in the 1890s, the long-vacant Blackstone Asylum casts its shadow over the small town, but now workmen have moved in to demolish it. As they do so, they unleash a terrible evil, an unholy fear long locked within its walls.

Seit über hundert Jahren haben die Menschen von Prairie Bend seinen Namen nur hinter vorgehaltener Hand und erfüllt von Furcht geflüstert: Nathaniel.

Italien, im Jahr 1252 n. Chr. - Mittelalter:
Inquisition, Anklage, Angst, Folter. Schuldige und Unschuldige sterben auf dem Scheiterhaufen für Sünden, die sie begangen oder nicht begangen haben...

Etwas Merkwürdiges geschieht mit den Kindern in Eastbury, Massachusetts: Plötzlich findet man scheinbar gesunde Babies tot in ihren Bettchen.