The Dollanganger Series
Righteous Anger...Innocent Fear... Because the grandmother's wrath had not yet materialized, Chris and I had grown carelss. We were not always modest in the bedroom. It was difficult to live, day in, day ou, and always keep the intimate places of our bodies secret from the other sex. And to be perfectly honest none of us cared very much who saw what. We should have cared. We should have been careful. We should have kept the memory of Momma's bloody welted back sharply before us, and never, never have forgotten. A key turned in the door lock. Swiftly I tried to put the dress over my head and pull it down before she came in. But she had seen me naked; it was those glittering gray stone eyes. |
For Carrie, Chris and Cathy the attic was a dark horror that would not leave their minds. Of course mother had to pretend they didn't exist. And grandmother was convinced they had the devil in them. But that wasn't their fault. Was it? Cathy knew what to do. She knew it was time to show her mother and grandmother that the pain and terror of the attic could not be forgotten...show them. Show them once and for all. |
Chris and Cathy made such a loving home... For fourteen-year-old Jory-so handsome, so gentle. And for Bart, who had such a dazzling imagination for a nine year old. Then the lights came on in the house next door. soon the old lady in black was there, watching them, guarded by her strange old butler. Soon she had Bart over for cookies and ice cream and asked him to call her "grandmother." And soon Bart's transformation began... Fed by the hint of terrble things about his mother and father...leading him into shcking acts of violence. Now while this little boy trembles on the edge of madness, his anguished parents await the climax to a horror that flowered in an attic long ago, a horror whose thorns are still wet with blood, still tipped with fire. |
The final, haunting novel in the extrordiary story that has enthralled millions! . Cathy and Chris, entwinded with the evil that haunts their children, living with the fearful spectre of Foxworth Hall, are awaiting the final, shuddering climax-prisoners of a past they cannot escape.
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Olivia dreamed of a sun-filled love, a happy life. Then she entered Foxworth Hall... Olivia came to Virginia as Malcolm Foxworths bride. At last, with her tall handsome husband, she would find the joy she had waited for, longed for. But in the gloomy mansion filled with hidden rooms and festering desires, a stain of jealous obsession begins to spread.. an evil that will threaten her children, two lovely boys and one very special, beautiful girl. For within one innocent child, a shocking secret lives...a secret that will taint the proud Foxworth name, and haunt all their lives forever! |
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