There was from the beginning, a palpable sense of something alien in the house.....
From the beginning there was a palpable sense of something alien in the house. Detective Steve Carella finds these words in the typewriter of Gregory Craig, famous author of tales of the supernatural. He has already discovered Mr. Craig's body in an adjoining bedroom, his face and torso punctuated by stab wounds. This is the second corpse that Carella and his partner, Cotton Hawes, have found in the space of 30 minutes ...............
This was a really good book!