Familiar Spirit

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“The image of the house resurfaced in her mind, and with it a pang of longing. She wanted to live there. The house might have been made especially for her.”

I don’t know about you, but that third sentence really strikes an uneasy chord in my heart of horror. Every character who has ever bought—or even just rented, as the case may be—a house in a horror novel has probably had a similar thought and pang. But as everyone from Burnt Offerings’ Marian Rolfe to Pet Sematary’s Louis Creed could tell you, it is not true, those feelings will undo you, and moving into and living in such a house that causes you to think that way is not a wise decision.

But you, fellow horror fiction fan, with this book in hand, have made a wise decision, by patronizing the esteemed publisher Valancourt Books and purchasing their Paperbacks from Hell series reprint of Lisa Tuttle’s first novel, Familiar Spirit. (I hope you have added her stellar short story collection A Nest of Nightmares to your library as well, also available from Valancourt).

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