Julia - Softcover

Straub, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345438655 ISBN 13: 9780345438652

Publisher: Ballantine Books Inc., 2000

Synopsis

In a new edition of an early horror classic by the author of The Hellfire Club, Julia Lufting, mourning the death of her child and struggling to to put the tragedy behind her, finds herself haunted by another terrifying child as she deals with the unspeakable truth about the way the youngster had died. Reprint.

About this title

About the Author:

Peter Straub was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and is the author of fourteen novels. He has won the British Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and two World Fantasy awards, and was elected Grand Master at the 1998 World Horror Convention. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. He lives in New York City.

From the Inside Flap:

n London a woman starts a new life, trying to put tragedy behind her. Then a pretty blonde child runs into view, bringing with her an inexplicable suggestion of evil.

Once Julia Lofting had a husband and a daughter. But everything has changed since she bolted from her marriage, in flight from the unbearable truth of her daughter's death. For Julia, there is no escape. Another child awaits, another mother suffers, and a circle of the damned gathers around her. The haunting has begun . . .

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books Inc.
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0345438655
• ISBN 13: 9780345438652
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304