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Journalist Will Barbee’s routine assignment in a quiet New York town turns into a desperate hunt for the missing, when a rash of murders begins to dominate the local headlines. The more he digs, the closer he gets to an ancient evil that knows no bounds. In the course of his investigation, Barbee encounters April Bell, a mysterious and alluring figure whose presence awakens disturbing, prophetic dreams. As friends die and his own sanity frays, the boundary between human and uncanny blurs. Barbee is drawn ever farther into the abyss of the Child of Night, a being whose revelation may undo everything he has known.
First publish date: 1963
Genre: Horror/Supernatural Horror
Authors: Jack Williamson
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