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The Keeper (Mass Market Paperback)

By Sarah Langan

$6.99

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Description

Some believe Bedford, Maine, is cursed. Its bloody past, endless rain, and the decay of its downtown portend a hopeless future. With the death of its paper mill, Bedford's unemployed residents soon find themselves with far too much time to dwell on thoughts of Susan Marley. Once the local beauty, she's now the local whore. Silently prowling the muddy streets, she watches eerily from the shadows, waiting for . . . something. And haunting the sleep of everyone in town with monstrous visions of violence and horror.

Those who are able will leave Bedford before the darkness fully ascends. But those who are trapped here&#8212from Susan Marley's long-suffering mother and younger sister to her guilt-ridden, alcoholic ex-lover to the destitute and faithless with nowhere else to go&#8212will soon know the fullest and most terrible meaning of nightmare.

About the Author

Sarah Langan received her MFA in fiction writing from Columbia University. She studied with Michael Cunningham, Nicholas Christopher, Helen Schulman, Susan Kenney, and Maureen Howard, among others, all of whom have been instrumental to her work. The author of The Keeper and the Bram Stoker Award-winning The Missing, she is a master's candidate in environmental medicine at NYU and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Praise for The Keeper…

“it’s hard to put down...”
-Washington Times

“Echoes of Stephen King resound...the first fruits of a most promising career.”
-Washington Times

“it’s the only horror story I’ve read recently that finds adequate metaphors for the self-destructive properties of anger.”
-New York Times Book Review

“THE KEEPER kept me up, late into the night...I’m hoping for a whole shelf of novels by Langan.”
-Kelly Link, author of MAGIC FOR BEGINNERS

“[A] brilliant debut, heralding the arrival of a major talent.”
-Tim Lebbon, author of DUSK and BERSERK

“Akin to the more ambitious work of Stephen King...this effective debut promises great things to come.”
-Publishers Weekly

“An astonishing first novel...chilling, haunting, and so smartly written that the pages fly by like the wind.”
-Ray Garton, author of THE LOVELIEST DEAD

“[A] distinct and juicy flavor all its own. THE KEEPER begins what should be a very fruitful career.”
-Peter Straub, New York Times bestselling author of IN THE NIGHT ROOM

“A dark and bracingly bleak tale of supernatural terror.”
-Ramsey Campbell, author of SECRET STORY

“Deft and disturbing... twists expectations into surreal surprises... hypnotic reading - an assured and impressive debut.”
-Douglas E. Winter

“A smart, brand-new take on the haunted house story…hard to believe this is a first novel.”
-Jack Ketchum, author of OFFSPRING

“Langan has a sharp eye for the small vivid details of American life, and her characters are utterly believable. Reminiscent of early Stephen King, this is not for the squeemish”
-London Times

“recalls Edgar Allan Poe”
-Washington Times