Julia

In a house in London a woman starts a new life, trying to put tragedy behind her. Then a pretty blonde child runs into view, bringing with her an inexplicable suggestion of evil.Once Julia Lofting had a husband and a daughter. But everything has changed since she bolted from her marriage, in flight from the unbearable truth of her daughter's death. For Julia, there is no escape. Another child awaits, another mother suffers, and a circle of the damned gathers around her. The haunting has begun . . .

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n London a woman starts a new life, trying to put tragedy behind her. Then a pretty blonde child runs into view, bringing with her an inexplicable suggestion of evil.Once Julia Lofting had a husband and a daughter. But everything has changed since she bolted from her marriage, in flight from the unbearable truth of her daughter's death. For Julia, there is no escape. Another child awaits, another mother suffers, and a circle of the damned gathers around her. The haunting has begun . . .

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"GENUINELY FRIGHTENING."--Chicago Tribune"INDESCRIBABLY CHILLING . . . THERE IS NO RESPITE FROM THE HORRORS AND THE HAUNTINGS."--Pittsburgh Press"I haven't read anything that so terrifyingly evoked the presence of evil and supernatural threat since The Exorcist. JULIA may be better."--Buffalo News"HAUNTING, IN EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD."--ROBERT BLOCH Author of Psycho

About the Author

Peter Straub was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and is the author of fourteen novels. He has won the British Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and two World Fantasy awards, and was elected Grand Master at the 1998 World Horror Convention. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. He lives in New York City.

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