This is a horror story, but also a love story.
After the sudden death of his beloved wife, best-selling author Mike Noonan found that he could no longer write coherently, and "writer's block" put his career in crisis. Not only that, for the past four years, he has had constant nightmares, and the scenes in his dreams are all in the old house by the Lake of Old Resentments, forcing him to go there to find out. The process of exploration was unpleasant. He found that his wife seemed to have an ulterior secret, and there was another hidden reason for her death. As he gets closer to the truth step by step, the people in the town also become more and more hostile to him, but human hostility is not the most terrifying thing...
This novel was first published in 1998. The hardcover edition had an initial print run of 1.2 Million copies and won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel that year and the British Fantasy Award the following year.
