On the small Pennsylvania college campus Liam O'Connor cuts a dashing, romantic figure. The Irish-born professor of folklore has good looks, a sweet charm, and a host of Old World superstitions - all of which dazzle beautiful graduate student Sara Morgan. Plunging headlong into a sudden love affair, Sara barely has time to notice the dark drama unfolding on the campus. Four murders have been committed, each more gruesomely horrifying than the one before it, each committed by someone, or something, with terrible fury and ...
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On the small Pennsylvania college campus Liam O'Connor cuts a dashing, romantic figure. The Irish-born professor of folklore has good looks, a sweet charm, and a host of Old World superstitions - all of which dazzle beautiful graduate student Sara Morgan. Plunging headlong into a sudden love affair, Sara barely has time to notice the dark drama unfolding on the campus. Four murders have been committed, each more gruesomely horrifying than the one before it, each committed by someone, or something, with terrible fury and strength. Suddenly Sara is receiving crank phone calls, warning her to stay away from Liam ... fearing her ex-boyfriend Chip's next angry outburst ... wondering why Liam's unmarried sister, Margaret, is so suffocatingly close to them ... and trying to escape the lecherous stares of her boss, Milton Cohn, the dean of students and the owner of a murderous-looking knife collection. When Liam proposes marriage, Sara accepts, making love by the light of sixteen candles, one of Liam's superstitions. Somehow, that final step seals her fate. The police begin to close in on a killer, the death toll mounts, and Sara is caught in an ever-tightening web. At its center, behind the most innocent superstitions, waits the greatest terror of all...
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book Octavo, hardcover, VG in VG blue pictorial dj. First printing. 390 pp. On the small Pennsylvania college campus Liam O'Connor cuts a dashing, romantic figure. The Irish-born professor of folklore has good looks, a sweet charm, and a host of Old World superstitions-all of which dazzle beautiful graduate student Sara Morgan. Plunging headlong into a sudden love affair, Sara barely has time to notice the dark drama unfolding on the campus. Four murders have been committed, each more gruesomely horrifying than the one before it, each committed by someone, or something, with terrible fury and strength.
It was way back in 1995 that R.L. Stine, the Stephen King of horror fiction for kids and teens, famous for creating Goosebumps and Fear Street, published Superstitious, his first shocker for adults! When college student Sara meets Liam, a handsome, overly superstitious professor, she finds his eccentricities even more charming as she finds herself falling head over heels in love with him. But when a series of ghastly murders terrorize the city, especially the neighborhood surrounding the college, Sara finds herself sharing the same fearsome suspicion as the investigating detectives: Given the sheer brutality of the slayings, the killer might not even be human! Who or what is killing all of these innocent people?? How could it be connected to Liam and his superstitions? And could Sara be next? With a suspenseful storyline that is guaranteed to keep you guessing, grisly killings that are sure to satisfy any and all gore-hounds, plenty of red herrings, and an ending that will bring to mind more than one major horror classic, including the works of Ira Levin, the adult fiction debut of this master of terror is one heck of a horror novel, a nightmare that rivals the best and scariest tales by Stephen King! You will enjoy it if you like horror thrillers, but be sure you turn on every light in your house before you start reading!
