Author: Peter Straub
Year: 2003
Genres: Mystery, Horror & Suspense - Horror
Awards: Best Novel (Bram Stoker Awards), Best Novel (International Horror Guild Awards)
A few days after successful horror writer Tom Underhill's sister-in-law commits suicide for no apparant reason, his nephew goes missing after visiting an abandoned house and a park where a serial killer has been preying on teenage boys.
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