Goingback, Owl

Darker Than Night [Native-lore motifs] [Haunted House]

New York: Signet, 1999. First Printing; November, 1999. The bindings are tight and square. Text is clean; light, even age-toning. Minimal shelf handling wear; Minor spine crease; Pen mark through the bar code on the inside front cover.

Signed by the Author with an inscriptions to Jeri Kandel.

The book is from the estate of Jeri Kandel of Sarasota, Florida. Jeri an aspiring Sci Fi/Horror author was active in the Florida West Coast Sci Fi – Fantasy community. She was a "volunteer" for DragonCon in Atlanta and other Florida West Coast and Orlando events as an active member of ASFA where she acquired amazing autographs.

A haunted-house/folk-horror tale with Midwestern roots: horror novelist Michael Anthony moves his family from New York back to his Missouri hometown and into his late grandmother’s house—only to find something already inside the walls, floors, and dark corners.

Goingback blends small-town menace with Native-lore overtones; the novel was a 1999 Bram Stoker Award finalist.

Subjects: Return-to-hometown haunting; Family under siege; Missouri small-town setting; Native-lore motifs; Horror; Haunted house; Folk/urban legend horror; supernatural thriller, folk-lore, small-town haunting, occult; Dark Fantasy

Item #21127
ISBN: 0451198786

Price: $24.00