Best Selling Books by John Saul

Clark''s Harbor was the perfect coastal haven, jealously guarded against outsiders. But now strangers have come to settle there. And a small boy is suddenly free of a frenzy that had gripped him since birth... His sister is haunted by fearful visions... And one by one, in violent, mysterious ways the strangers are dying. Never the townspeople. Only the strangers. Has a dark bargain been struck between the people of Clark''s Harbor and some supernatural force? Or is it the sea itself calling out for a human sacrifice? A howling, deadly... Cry For The Strangers.

Beware the second child. This lush, secluded Maine seaside resort is the summer playground of the superrich, but one hundred years ago, something disturbed their play. Horror came to this village. And though no one knows it yet, the horror has never left. It waits for a shy young girl, outcast by her friends, her beautiful sister, even her own mother. She knows how it feels to be unwanted. She knows anger. And soon she will know the touch of unholy terror—and the rage of blood-drenched vengeance.

For a hundred years, the people of Prairie Bend have whispered Nathaniel''s name in wonder and fear. Some say he is a folktale, created to frighten children on cold winter nights. Some swear he is a terrifying spirit retumed to avenge the past. But soon . . . very soon . . . some will learn that Nathaniel lives still--that he is darkly, horrifyingly real. Nathaniel--he is the voice that calls to young Michael Hall across the prairie night . . . the voice that draws the boy into the shadowy depths of the old, crumbling, forbidden barn . . . that chanting, compelling voice he will follow faithfully beyond the edge of terror.

Italy 1252. Inquisition. Accusation. Fear. Torture. The guilty and the innocent dying for sins real and imagined in the flames of the burning stake. Neilsville, 1978. Peter Blasam has come to this sleepy desert town to teach its youth, and finds a mystery of mounting horror. Something is happening to the young girls of St. Francis Xavier High School -- something evil. In bloodlet and terror a suicide contagion has swept the two... while a dark order of its holy men enacts a secret medieval ritual. Is hysteria manipulating these innocent children into violent self-destruction? Or has supernatural force, a thirteenth-century madness, returned to... Punish The Sinners.

A century ago, a gentle blind girl walked the cliffs of Paradise Point. Then the children came -- taunting, teasing -- until she lost her footing and fell, shrieking her rage to the drowning sea... Now Michelle has come from Boston to live in the big house on Paradise Point. She is excited about her new life, ready to make new friends... until a hand reaches out of the swirling mists -- the hand of blind child. She is asking for friendship... seeking revenge... whispering her name...

Cassie Winslow is sixteen. She has just lost her mother in a terrible accident. Now, lonely and frightened, she has come to live with the father she barely knows and his new family in tiny False Harbor on Cape Cod. For Cassie, the strange, unsettling dreams that come to her suddenly in the dead of night are merely the beginning. Very soon, Cassie Winslow will come to know the terrifying powers that are her gift. And in the village of False Harbor, nothing will ever be the same.

"New York Times"-bestselling author Saul is at his diabolical best, in this thrilling new novel of an exorcist who has learned how to reverse the mysterious art--to summon evil instead of driving it out.

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

The stories in Call It Tender are devoted to love, hope, nostalgia; to life in its precariousness, absurdities and joys. Told with the author''s characteristic wit and sense of atmosphere—set in Mallorca, Berlin, Wiltshire and Suffolk, Mannheim and New Jersey—they tell of lovers meeting, of how a prisoner struggles, a forester grows curious, a patient survives, a girl falls and falls through space. As a wind blows off the North Sea, a house in London burns, or the Eiffel Tower sparkles in the night, the reader will be able to appreciate why John Saul''s fiction has been called funny, beguiling, provocative. His work has further appeared in the prestigious New Writing series and anthologies published by Serpent’s Tail.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

A novel of medical science and supernatural terror set against the backdrop of Hawaii''s volcanic islands. By the author of Black lightning.

It should have been the best kind of homecoming for young widow Karen Spellman, who was returning to her home town to marry her childhood sweetheart. But something sinister awaits her, something as primal as nature, and so hideous it seemed spawned in hell.

A terrible secret lurks beneath the picturesque surface of a small town, high in the Rocky Mountains. Sharon Tanner soon comes to doubt the sanctuary of her family''s apparently perfect new surroundings, which conceal secret rituals, violence and unimaginable evil.

Bestselling stunningly realistic story of terror about a conspiracy of genetic engineering linked to the phenomenon of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome).