Description
We found this psychological horror novel gripping and fascinating in that we could not look away. The slow build up that starts with a scratching within apartment walls had us doubting every sound in our own dwelling. Yes, this book works on that level. “It’s only a story,” we kept whispering to ourselves.
Spoiler alert! We are pretty sure you’ll be wanting to read a third book after Hallett’s sophomore release.
A woman is haunted by voices and impulses she cannot control in this modern horror classic, named one of Book Riot’s 50 Scariest Books of All Time.
A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that’s replaced by obscene insults. Amanda—a successful architect in a happy marriage—finds her life going off-kilter by degrees. She starts smoking again, and one night for no reason, without even the knowledge that she’s doing it, she burns her husband with a cigarette. At night she dreams of a beautiful woman with pointed teeth on the shore of a blood-red sea.
A new voice in Amanda’s head tells her to talk to strange men in bars, steal things, hurt people. As she struggles to wrest back control of her life, she discovers a book on demon possession that suggests that the figure on the shore could be the demon Naamah, known to scholars of the Kabbalah as the second wife of Adam, who stole into his dreams and tricked him into fathering her child. Whatever the case, as the violence of her erratic behavior increases, Amanda knows that she must act to put her life right, or see it destroyed.
Number of pages: 176
Dimensions: 195 x 130 x 20 mm
A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that’s replaced by obscene insults. Amanda—a successful architect in a happy marriage—finds her life going off-kilter by degrees. She starts smoking again, and one night for no reason, without even the knowledge that she’s doing it, she burns her husband with a cigarette. At night she dreams of a beautiful woman with pointed teeth on the shore of a blood-red sea.
A new voice in Amanda’s head tells her to talk to strange men in bars, steal things, hurt people. As she struggles to wrest back control of her life, she discovers a book on demon possession that suggests that the figure on the shore could be the demon Naamah, known to scholars of the Kabbalah as the second wife of Adam, who stole into his dreams and tricked him into fathering her child. Whatever the case, as the violence of her erratic behavior increases, Amanda knows that she must act to put her life right, or see it destroyed.
Number of pages: 176
Dimensions: 195 x 130 x 20 mm
