John Saul, Author Ballantine Books $25 (344p) ISBN 978-0-345-43316-9
Saul has trawled the trenches of the Gothic many times before (The Blackstone Chronicles, etc.), but this whopper of a nightmare tale has been fished from the region's purplest depths. Infanticide, insanity, miscegenation and black magic are in the...
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John Saul, Author Fawcett Books $25 (400p) ISBN 978-0-449-91055-9
Like the sinister scientists who figure so prominently in his fiction, Saul (Black Lightning) has perfected a formula: invent an eerie menace and drive home its horror by imagining its impact on an innocent and defenseless victim. In his 21st novel,
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John Saul, Author Fawcett Books $21.5 (389p) ISBN 978-0-449-90863-1
Though Saul ( Guardian ) has kept up with readers' tastes by depicting far more graphic violence than he did years back, he still offers the sort of old-fashioned terrors, told without a whisper of literary experimentation, that for 17 years have...
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John Saul, Author Fawcett Books $21.5 (390p) ISBN 978-0-449-90862-4
Despite the high death toll generated by some pretty nasty weapons (claws, fangs, shotgun, fire poker, pitchfork), there's not much terror here because banal details and very ordinary people overwhelm the fear factor. MaryAnne Carpenter, trying to...
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John Saul, Author Fawcett Books $23 (392p) ISBN 978-0-449-90864-8
Fast pacing and skillful narrative misdirection make this supernatural thriller one of Saul's (The Homing) best--and one of his few not to focus on children in peril. Richard Kraven, the novel's heavy, is as nasty as they come: he eviscerates his...
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John Saul, Author Bantam Books $19.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-07474-1
After a very slow first half, Saul ( Darkness , The God Project ) picks up the pace and delivers aword? tense, high-tech psychological suspense thriller. Ten-year-old genius Josh MacCallum is bored, lonely and almost always angry at his older,...
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John Saul, Author Bantam Books $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-05354-8
The latest horror novel from consistently bestselling Saul ( Suffer the Children ; Hellfire ) is set in Silverdale, Colo., a company-town variation on Spielberg surburbia. There, conglomerate TarrenTech provides the high school teams with every...
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John Saul, Author Fawcett Books $7.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-449-22379-6
Bestselling horror writer Saul's 18th novel features a mad entomologist and serial killer whose latest experiment causes insects to control the mind of a teenage girl, forcing her to implant the bugs into other innocent teens. (Aug.)
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John Saul, Author Bantam $7.99 (480p) ISBN 978-0-553-28834-6
Borrego looks like an ordinary New Mexico town: it borders an Indian reservation, its teenagers are bored and restless, and its only industry is the outdated oil refinery. But someone has a plan to shake up Borrego that involves controlling the...
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John Saul, Author . Ballantine $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-345-43330-5
Why mess with success? Twenty-four novels and 24 years down the road, Saul continues to deliver the same sleek pulp entertainment that he's been selling—in high numbers—since his debut with Suffer the Children
in 1977. This time out,
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John Saul, Author Bantam Books $17.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-07373-7
The prologue of veteran horror writer Saul's ( Second Child ) new novel is wonderfully scary: A pregnant teenage ``swamp rat'' of the Everglades, spying on a secret meeting of ``the Dark Man'' and ``his children,'' sees a friend offer up her newborn
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John Saul, Author . Ballantine $26 (291p) ISBN 978-0-345-51424-0
Set in Vermont, this supernatural thriller from bestseller Saul (Faces of Fear
) updates but adds nothing new to a traditional story. Six months after 14-year-old Sarah Crane's mother dies from cancer, Sarah's father, Ed, accidentally...
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John Saul, Author . Ballantine $26 (324p) ISBN 978-0-345-48705-6
Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Conrad Dunn has put his talents to work making his wife, Margot, the embodiment of physical perfection, but after her face is scarred in a boating accident, Margot takes her own life in this less than suspenseful...
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John Saul, Author . Ballantine $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-48703-2
Bestseller Saul (Suffer the Children
) links an exorcism of the devil with a plot to kill the pope in this over-the-top religious thriller. When thugs at a Boston public high school savagely beat 16-year-old Ryan McIntyre, who's struggling with
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John Saul, Author . Ballantine $25.95 (324p) ISBN 978-0-345-48701-8
At the start of this unoriginal but undeniably creepy horror chiller from bestseller Saul (Perfect Nightmare
), Eric Brewster and two high school pals, Kent Newell and Tad Sparks, are looking forward to a summer vacation with their families in...
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John Saul, Author . Ballantine $25.95 (339p) ISBN 978-0-345-46731-7
A creepy stalker story becomes a shrewd whodunit as Saul's latest tracks a move from tranquil suburbia to the big city. After a job promotion, the Marshall family prepares to move from Long Island to Manhattan, unaware that a menace edges ever...
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John Saul, Author . Ballantine $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-345-43332-9
With more than 30 books under his belt, veteran suspense novelist Saul is back with a horror novel featuring witchcraft, teen revenge and a haunted house. Angel Sullivan, a plain-looking 14-year-old who never fits in, gets a chance for a fresh start
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John Saul, Author . Ballantine $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-43331-2
Saul knows how to dish out thrills, and with a sly tribute to Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby, as well as other horror classics, this latest pulp shocker should have fans lining up. Mother of two and widow of a murdered Central Park jogger,...
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