This is a horror story, and it is also a love story.
After his beloved wife suddenly dies, bestselling author Mike Noonan finds himself unable to write a coherent word. Writer’s block threatens to derail his career. Worse, for four years he has been plagued by nightmares set in an old house beside Dark Score Lake, driving him to go there and uncover the truth. The investigation is an unpleasant one: he discovers that his wife seems to have been hiding a terrible secret, and that there is more to her death than meets the eye. As he edges closer to the truth, the townspeople grow increasingly hostile toward him. But human hostility is not the most terrifying thing…
First published in 1998, this novel’s hardcover edition had a first printing of 1.2 million copies. It won the 1998 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel and the 1999 British Fantasy Award.
