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Doris Sutcliffe Adams: Power of Darkness [historical romance, witchcraft] Belmont paperback #B95-2078, Dec. 1970 – Helie, a young adventurer, returns to England from exile in the dark days of King John’s reign to find his girlfriend Durande accused of murder and witchcraft. The young lovers fight side by side against sinister relatives, dare-devil knights, vicious practitioners of the black arts, and weird supernatural creatures. [G] $3.99 | SOLD | |
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Joan Aiken: Castle Barebane [romantic suspense] Pocket paperback #81140, June 1977 [ISBN 0671811401] – to Castle Barebane, an ancient, desolate mansion rambling above treacherous cliffs on the haunted Scottish coast, a beautiful and daring New York journalist comes to search for her missing brother. A bitter, aging housekeeper keeps guard; a legendary ghost stalks the lonely corridors; a slew of vicious murders ravages the women of nearby London. [FAIR] $.99 | ||
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Charlotte Armstrong: The Girl with a
Secret
[romantic suspense]
Fawcett Crest paperback #R1370, 4th
printing, Jan. 1970 – Alice Page was very young, very pretty, and very
much in love with her husband who she had met just two weeks before
their marriage. Then on their honeymoon she stumbled onto a deadly
secret – only a bit of writing on a scrap of paper, but in the wrong
hands it spelled murder. And someone, somewhere, thought she knew too
much.
[G+] $2.99 |
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Charlotte Armstrong: The Protégé
[suspense]
Fawcett Crest paperback #01505, Jan. 1971
– what was a respectable old widow like Mrs. Moffat doing with that
bearded young stranger in her house? He told her he had lived next door
when he had been a child and had been friends with her grandson who had
vanished mysteriously. Then she watched with dawning horror as a bizarre
scheme unfolded, threatening to revive a forgotten terror from the past.
[G] $2.99 |
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Jean Bellamy: Ghost of Coquina Key [gothic, ghost story] Lancer paperback #75514, 1970 – the ghost of Mary Snow was said to walk by night in the bell tower of Trowbridge Mansion to ring the great bell for her lost lover. Bethany knew the legend of Coquina Key, that enchanting Florida island where she had shared blissful childhood days with her father. Now she has returned, and the legend is no longer a childhood fancy; it is a terrifying reality. [NF] $4.99 | ||
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Evelyn Berckman: The Hovering Darkness [romantic suspense] Ace paperback #F-202, 1963 – Denise sails for England aboard the luxury liner Queen Alexandria, unaware that she sails in company with terror. Her fellow passengers include a wealthy young couple fleeing with their child from a kidnap plot. Denise finds herself inextricably involved in the swiftly rising tide of lethal danger which has not ended at the gangplank but seems to be everywhere aboard the ship. [G+] $3.99 | ||
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Grace Corren: The Darkest Room [gothic, psychological suspense] Magnum paperback #75457, 2nd printing, April 1973 – Toby had been Anne’s first and only love – but he had been killed in a car crash, for which she still felt responsible. But was he dead – or was his spirit haunting her, unwilling to let her know peace as long as she lived the life of which he had been deprived, unable to rest until Anne joined her in eternity? Pseudonym of Robert Hoskins. [F] $5.99 | ||
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Dorothy Daniels: Journey into Terror
[historical romance]
Pyramid Books paperback #X-2191, 1st
printing, March 1970 – Lovely Bella Chase fled from the ashes of her
childhood home to Washington D.C. where she worked in secret to aid the
Southern cause, ferreting out bits of information that might insure a
Rebel victory. One thing threatened her plans: the memory of the
handsome Union major who had embraced her and vowed that they would meet
again.
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Nicola Devon: House of Illusion [gothic, supernatural] Ace paperback #34425, 1969 – when Jackie Forrest went to visit her great-aunt Elma at the lonely, rambling Retreat, a monument to her late magician husband, she was not prepared for the mystery and danger that awaited her. Menaced by ghostly visions and terrifying apparitions, she knew she could not leave until she made the house give up its secrets – if it would let her leave at all. Pseudonym of Rex Dolphin. [F] $6.99 | ||
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Dorothy Eden: Bridge of Fear [romantic suspense] Ace paperback #K-236, 1966 – when Abby Fearon left England to marry Luke in Australia, their brief and exciting courtship had not prepared her for the bewildering change in the man she loved. Instead of a tender, devoted groom, she found a stranger. Their honeymoon cottage became a house of dread; Abby sensed unseen eyes watching her. How could she save her marriage – and her life? Original title: Afternoon for Lizards. [VG] $4.99 | ||
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Dorothy Eden: Crow Hollow [romantic suspense] Ace paperback #K-275, 1966 – the eerie old house Rodney brought his bride home to contained three weird old maid aunts just this side of insanity, and a beautiful young housemaid whose demeanor was familiar and insubordinate. With growing fear Lois realized that she knew little of Rodney’s past – and he could not, or would not admit that his wife’s life was in danger. First published in UK, 1950. [VG] $4.99 | ||
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Dorothy Eden: Death is a Red Rose [romantic suspense] Ace paperback #14191, 1970 – when Cressida rented the vacant flat in the large, decaying London house, she got more than she bargained for. Her landlady, a strange old widow, quickly identified her with a long-dead daughter who had shared her name; and someone else in the house was also confusing the new girl with her dead namesake. An aura of menace and madness pursued her with the lingering scent of roses. [F] $5.99 | ||
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Dorothy Eden: Lady of Mallow [romantic suspense] Ace paperback #K-171, 1963 – Sarah is determined to find out the truth about handsome Blaine Mallow, the new master of Mallow Hall. Is he indeed a rogue and imposter? Or is he what he claimed to be, the true heir to that great mansion? Contriving to become governess to Blaine’s child, Sarah soon finds herself being drawn irresistibly against her will to the very man she has come to expose. [VG] $4.99 | ||
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Dorothy Eden: Listen to Danger [romantic suspense] Ace paperback #K-267, 1966 – in the shadows of the night, a veiled woman lurked in the garden, staring at the house, watching, waiting... it all started with a mysterious telephone call that plunged Harriet Lacey into a suffocating atmosphere of terror. It was an odd assortment of people who lived in the narrow brick house – but one of them was bent on destroying Harriet and everything she held dear. [VG] $4.99 | ||
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Dorothy Eden: The Shadow Wife [romantic suspense] Fawcett Crest paperback #T1229, first printing, Jan. 1969 – the wedding ceremony was hasty, almost furtive, but Louise was too wildly infatuated to care. Not until they arrived at Maaneborg Castle did Luise become aware that something was wrong. There was an atmosphere of desperation and danger. They were hiding something, and Luise was determined to find out their secret, no matter what the risk. [VG] $4.99 | ||
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Dorothy Eden: The Voice of the Dolls [romantic suspense] Ace paperback #86600, 1975 – with shock Sarah heard the dolls talking to each other on the other side of the hedge. But it was just the clever mimicry of a strange little girl playing a frighteningly adult game with them, putting dangerous words in their painted mouths. Sarah became part of the eerie and secretive household, where the gentle facade hid the menace of madness and murder. [F] $5.99 | ||
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Dorothy Eden: Winterwood [romantic suspense] Fawcett Crest paperback #t1104, first printing, March 1968 – Winterwood, a huge English country estate, seems like a sanctuary to Lavinia, the beautiful and penniless young woman hired as companion for the young invalid countess. But it is not long before she is aware that the atmosphere is filled with menace. An evil spell haunts the household, and neither Lavinia nor the innocent child she is protecting is safe from it. [VG] $4.99 | SOLD | |
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Jennifer Hale: The Secret of Devil’s Cave [gothic] Magnum paperback #75468, 1973 – the grave was new, with a large but simple stone and an almost solid blanket of flowers on the low mound of freshly turned earth. There was no clue to the identity of the person buried there, however, for the stone was blank. As Beth Nolan studied the photograph that had been in her late father’s papers, she stepped unknowingly onto a path leading straight into horror. [VG] $4.99 | ||
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Jane Aiken Hodge: Maulever Hall [gothic, psychological suspense] Pyramid Books paperback #A4332, 4th printing, Feb. 1977 – When she arrives at Maulever Hall with a small boy in tow, Marianne has amnesia, and only knows she is fearful for their lives. But does the brooding master of the house, Mark Maulever, intend harm to her? Has she escaped one danger only to fall victim to another? The shocking secrets of her past await her in Maulever Hall. [F] $5.99 | ||
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Victoria Holt: The Demon Lover [romantic suspense] Fawcett Crest/Ballantine paperback, 1st printing, Jan. 1984 – When Kate Collison paints a portrait of the powerful Baron de Centeville as a favor for her father, her only thought is to be a dutiful daughter. But when the Baron presents her to Parisian society as the painter, Kate finds that the Baron has plans for her – shocking plans that will change her life unless she can fight the Baron with his own weapons. [VG] $4.99 | ||
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Victoria Holt: Mistress of Mellyn [romantic suspense] Fawcett Crest paperback, 1988 [ISBN 0449239241] – As Martha Leigh approaches the sprawling mansion of her new employer, Connan TreMellyn, an odd chill of apprehension overcomes her. Powerless against her growing desire for Connan, she is drawn deeper into family secrets. But though evil lurks in the shadows, so does love – and the freedom to find a golden promise of forever. [F] $4.99 | ||
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Susan Howatch: The Waiting Sands & The
Devil on Lammas Night
[gothic, witchcraft, occult]
Stein & Day hardcover in just jacket,
book club edition – two classic gothic novels by the bestselling author
of the Starbridge series. The Waiting Sands (1966) is a romantic
suspense tale set in a remote Scottish castle; The Devil on Lammas
Night (1970) is an occult thriller featuring an alluring but
sinister Satanist and his coven of black magic practicing disciples.
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Shirley
Jackson: The Haunting of Hill House
[horror, gothic, ghost story] Popular Library paperback, first printing, June 1962
(movie tie-in edition) – Dr. Montague, an investigator
of psychic disturbances, extends an invitation to three young people to
join him at Hill House, whose tragic history has made it unfit for human
habitation.
During the
days and nights to follow there are doors that close, drafts that chill,
banging and scurrying noises, and writing on the walls.
[VG]
$7.49
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Shirley
Jackson: The Sundial
[gothic, horror, occult] Ace Star paperback #K-166,
1st printing, 1962 – An odd assortment of kin and hangers-on gather in a
gothic mansion as, initially drawn by the lure of the family fortune,
they get drawn into a sort of group apocalyptic psychosis. They end up
burning an extensive library of books to make room for survival supplies
as they await the mysterious catastrophe revealed by visions and
apparently supernatural events.
[VG]
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Shirley
Jackson: We Have Always
Lived in the Castle
[gothic, psychological suspense] Popular
Library paperback #01509, 1972 –
Mary Katherine Blackstone
lives with her older sister Constance and her invalid uncle Julian in a
mansion cut off from the local village. One day Charles, a cousin, shows
up. Although Mary doesn’t like him, Constance makes him welcome in the
house. Mary decides she must do something to drive him away.
[VG]
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Philip Loraine: Eye of the Devil
[gothic, occult]
Lancer Books paperback #73-663, 1967 –
originally entitled Day of the Arrow; the basis of a 1967
film
– when her husband leaves for his castle in a remote European
village, instructing her to stay behind with their children, Catherine’s
curiosity is piqued. She secretly follows and discovers that the
villagers are members of a pagan cult, and that they believe his death
may be required for the health of the crops.
[VG]
$4.99 |
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Anne Maybury: The Minerva Stone [romantic suspense] Bantam paperback #S4687, 5th printing, 1969 – When Sarah married TV personality Niall Rhodes, everyone thought they would live happily ever after. But after one year of marriage, strange and disturbing things began to happen. Someone tried to run Sarah down with a car. And then there was the shot that grazed Niall’s arm, the threatening notes, and the Italian doll with its head broken left in Sarah’s car. [VG] $2.99 | ||
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Sarah Nichols: House of Rancour [gothic, supernatural] Paperback Library #00566, 1974 – Entrusted with the care of Louis Rancour’s granddaughter, young Cristy Hardwicke set out for Chillings, the vast Rancour estate. But her new life turned into a leering nightmare on the night of the full moon when she saw the ghastly creature – half animal, half human – that wailed her name in the moonlight. [VG] $4.99 | SOLD | |
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John U. Nicolson: Fingers of Fear [gothic, horror, vampires] Paperback Library #53-976, 1st printing, July 1966 – Gray Ormesby seemed possessed by a fiend that shrouded itself in the darkness of her eerie family home. By day she was a charming normal woman. But when the moon was full she became a demon driven by a lust for human blood. Is she merely reacting hysterically to the strange history of her family – or is she really a creature of the damned? [NF] $14.99 | ||
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Joyce Carol Oates: Mysteries of Winterthurn
[gothic, historical
novel, mystery]
Berkley paperback, Aug. 1985 [ISBN
0425080226] – an extraordinary novel of mystery and murder – the third
in Joyce Carol Oates’s ongoing sequence of novels that deals in genre
form with nineteenth-century America. In Mysteries of Winterthurn
the detective-hero Xavier Kilgarvan is confronted with three baffling
cases, all in Winterthurn, the place of his birth. [VG] $4.99 |
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Kate Ostrander: Dance with a Ghost [gothic, romance] Berkley Medallion paperback #Z3062, 1976 – when orphaned Caroline Truro was offered a teaching job at a Massachusetts high school, she accepted happily. Distant relatives welcomed her into their home at Brookdale Manor. But for reasons she could not fathom, her relatives were jealous and suspicious, as if she were intruding on some dread secret from their past. [NF] $5.49 | SOLD | |
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Beatrice Parker: Come to Castlemoor
[gothic, occult]
Dell paperback #1510, 1st printing, July
1970 – The shadow of Castlemoor fell ominously across the moors. Every
soul seemed to live in terror. When Kathy found that her brother’s life
work – a study of bloody, primitive rites once practiced on these moors
– had disappeared, she vowed to find the manuscript and complete the
book. Then she learned that the rites were being reenacted, and she was
trapped in a circle of death.
[G] $3.99 |
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Florence Engel Randall: Hedgerow [romantic suspense] Fawcett Crest paperback, 1st printing, Sept. 1968 – Hedgerow’s fresh green fields, cool woodlands, and gracious farmhouse promised peace and quiet and innocence – but Meredith’s unexpected arrival awakened the sleeping evil that lay beneath. Strand by strand she found herself being pulled into the strange web of hate, violence, and love that had already driven one person to suicide – or was it murder? [G] $2.99 | ||
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Lady Eleanor Smith: A Dark and Splendid
Passion
[gothic]
Ace paperback #K-207, 1964 – originally
published as The Man in Grey in 1941, and adapted to
film
under that title in 1943 – the artist’s name was long since forgotten,
but the brooding, enigmatic face in the portrait would forever haunt
those who chanced to look upon him. Mary was alone in the ghost-ridden
manor when she came upon the portrait in a hidden room.
Interior art by Jack Gaughan.
[G+] $4.99 |
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Elizabeth George Speare: The Witch of
Blackbird Pond
[historical novel, witchcraft, young adult]
Dell paperback #9577, Oct. 1971 – Kit
Tyler is forced to leave her Caribbean home for the Connecticut
Colony. In 1687, a girl who swims and wears silk and satin gowns is is in danger of being regarded as a witch. When
Kit befriends an old Quaker woman known as the Witch of Blackbird Pond,
it is more than the ascetics can take: soon Kit is defending her life.
[VG+] $4.99 |
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Mary Stewart: This Rough Magic
[romantic suspense]
William Morrow hardcover in just jacket,
book club edition, 1964 – British actress Lucy Waring believes there is
no finer place than the sun-drenched isle of Corfu, the alleged locale
for Shakespeare's The Tempest. Even the suspicious actions of
the handsome son of a famous actor cannot dampen her enthusiasm for this
wonderland by the sea. Then a corpse is carried ashore on the incoming
tide...
[VG/G] $3.99 |
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Mary Stewart: Thornyhold
[gothic, witchcraft,
occult]
Fawcett Crest/Ballantine paperback, first
edition/first printing, Dec. 1989 [ISBN 0449217124] – When Gilly’s witch
aunt leaves Thornyhold to her, she finds that the place seems to convoke
otherworldly gifts: she cultivates the abilities to heal and to foresee
the future once she makes Thornyhold her home. She also encounters
sinister neighbors, messages from beyond the grave, and even the whisper
of love.
[F] $5.99 |
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Grace Zaring Stone: Dear Deadly Cara [gothic, mystery] Pyramid paperback #T2343, Nov. 1970 – Gil Mason, a visiting artist, is curious about the elderly inhabitants of Cold Harbor who lead quiet, genteel lives. When young, beautiful Avril Drew enters the scene he begins to see behind the social amenities and discovers that evil is as prevalent as the marigolds in Cold Harbor – linked to the long-dead matron Cara who still dominates those she left behind. [VG] $4.99 | ||
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Sharon Wagner: Maridu [gothic, occult] Lancer paperback #74715, 1970 – Pretty, vivacious Donna Shields was a woman of today – but her dreams were of a world 4,000 years dead. The chance to work on the reconstruction of the ancient Sumerian city of Meridu seemed like a heaven-sent opportunity – but, impossible though it seemed, her employer was in league with a woman who had been dead for thousands of years – and their plans for her could threaten her life. [VG+] $5.99 | ||
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Paulette Warren: Caliban’s Castle [gothic] Berkley Medallion paperback #N3064, 1976 – Caliban’s castle was massive and gray, with four parapets that looked strangely out of place on the New England coast. Surrounded by a moat and built over an exotic thermal fault, its setting was no less bizarre than its century-old history of inexplicable tragedies. It was as though a curse hung over the brooding edifice the hunchback Caliban Leach had built during the civil war. [F] $7.99 | SOLD | |
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Julie Wellsley: House Malign [gothic] Magnum paperback #75271, 1967 – Vanessa thought she had found a sanctuary with the Venner family, a place where she could forget the nightmares of the past. But things are rarely what they seem. For all their beauty, the moors turned out to be treacherous, and there was something profoundly sinister about the Venners. Not peace, but fear and horror, came to Vanessa in the night. [NF] $4.99 | ||
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Ethel Lina White: The Unseen [gothic, mystery] Paperback Library #52-351, 1st printing, Oct. 1966 – “There’s someone – or something – in the empty house,” Elizabeth whispered in fear. “Deliver me from the Powers of Darkness!” The grim mansion next door had been shuttered for years, yet she could hear eerie noises coming from the old, empty house. It kept her awake at night, terrified. She knew it would frighten her forever unless she could uncover its secret. [VG+] $7.99 | ||
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Ethel Lina White: While She Sleeps [gothic, mystery] Paperback Library #52-974, 1st printing, July 1966 – While she sleeps alone in an empty, gloomy mansion, a ruthless killer threatens her safety. She has met him once but his appearance – so pleasant, so refined – has not made her suspect that his intentions toward her were not romantic but homicidal. Will she wake in time to save her life? Or will that shadow-filled mansion become her burial vault? [VG] $5.99 | ||
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Phyllis A. Whitney: The Moonflower
[romantic suspense]
Fawcett Crest paperback #M1728, Aug. 1972
– set against the exotic backdrop of modern Japan, this suspenseful tale
unfolds the story of lovely Marcia Talbot, whose marriage to a brilliant
young scientist is being threatened by ominous, unseen forces. From the
moment she receives the strange telegram, she knows she must move
quickly against forces that threaten their lives and their sanity as
well.
[VG+] $4.99 |
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Phyllis A. Whitney: The Turquoise Mask
[romantic suspense]
Fawcett Crest paperback #Q2365, 1st
printing, Feb. 1975 – something hidden deep in her memory was the key to
Amanda Austin’s past. After her father died, she decided to learn the
truth about her family in New Mexico. But from the moment she arrived at
her grandfather’s home, she was met with suspicion and hate. They were
her family, but they were strangers... and one of them was a murderer.
[VG+] $4.99 |
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Phyllis A. Whitney: Window on the
Square
[romantic suspense,
historical novel]
Fawcett Crest paperback #t1112, 1960 –
Brandon Reid’s nine year old nephew is impossible to handle since
accidentally shooting his father two years before. Reid asks Megan
Kincaid to move into the Reid house and work with the troubled boy to
curb his violent temper. As Megan learns more about the fateful
shooting, she realizes that the boy’s father was murdered – by someone
else.
[VG] $3.99 |
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Brad Williams: A Stranger to Herself [gothic, psychological suspense] Pyramid Books paperback #X-1555, Dec. 1966 – Norma gazed at the young, attractive woman staring back at her from the mirror. In the eerie, fading dusk, she shuddered – for she suddenly realized that she did not know her own face – or her past – or anything but her name! Her fear grew steadily and she knew she stood at the threshold of a dreadful discovery. [NF] $7.99 | SOLD | |
