lol! nice one.![]()
lol! nice one.![]()
I read it in Junior High also. My mom had the paperback with the vamp on the cover with the eyes that followed you around the room and it was always sitting on the coffee table. It freaked me out. After the David Soul mini-series came out, I HAD to read it. I loved it!
I loved this one for its setting and atmosphere. That creepy house I could envision so well, the busy streets that became creepily quieter as the book continued, I loved the feel of it more than anything else. Not "scary," exactly, but a creep that made the book compulsively readable. Although the scene where the character goes into the school bus at night... THAT was scary. :-)
I haven't read this book in years, but when I did read it I found it to be one of those books you just can't put down. It didn't scare me though, I found it quite riveting though. I still have it on my nook account, I might just have to go back and read it again.
My first book.. When I was 14. Never looked back... So glad to have found you all...![]()
My first and right up there with my absolute favorites!! Nothing like to get those juices flowing!!
Love this book. Just had a reread recently. Wondering about the boy at the hospital who warns someone about Ann Norton in the hospital with a gun. When the man turns around the boy has gone. I thought first off that it would be Mark. But a little bit later when Father Callaghan is sitting on the bus waiting for the driver to return with his drink we read:
"He went on looking out the window. Across the street, a teenaged boy was sitting on a porch stoop with his head folded into his arms. Callahan watched him until the bus pulled out again, but the boy never moved."
Curious.
I remember reading this one during a thunderstorm (I was living in Albuquerque at the time-it was a doozy) and I was in the house alone. I was about 13 or so-my bed was in the corner of the room and I was hunkered into the corner as small as I could get but I wasn't putting that book down!!
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