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264 pp.
| Carolrhoda |
September, 2006 |
TradeISBN 0-8225-6443-2$15.95
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4-6
Jack, who suffers from severe asthma, moves into a house inhabited by tortured spirits that only he can sense: four trapped children and the woman who consumes their souls while purporting to mother them. The Ghost Mother covets Jack's love and possesses his mother in an attempt to gain it. Haunting imagery and fully realized supernatural mythology charge this eerie ghost story.