Night Things: A Novel of Supernatural Terror

✍ Scribed by Talbot, Michael

• Book ID: 107889482
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 698 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

From the Back Cover

From a history book about the stately isolated summer mansions of upstate New York:

Built between the years 1884 and 1890 by Sarah Balfram, the daughter of an industrialist and railroad tycoon, LakeHouse is believed to be the largest of the great camps in the Adirondacks. It is thought to contain at least 160 rooms. One of the more intriguing features of the house is the peculiarity of its wildly Victorian design, abounding with staircases that lead nowhere, rooms with skewed proportions, and miles of meandering hallways

But the strangest thing about LakeHouse is the extraordinary amount of bloodshed that has taken place within its walls. Only months after the houses completion, Sarah Balframs fiance, Viktor Oelrich, was shot to death there. In 1923, Hollywood director Desmond Hunt was stabbed to death during a party given at the house by silent-film star Mae Norman. Since then a remarkable number of other murders have occurred at the house: the Krafft family massacre in 1929, the Ponzi murders in 1937, the shooting of Ann and Marie Rouchard by an unknown assailant in 1952, the bludgeoning death': of Wall Street commodities broker Sol Morgenthau and family in 1964

This summer Lake House has new tenants: pretty Lauren Ransom, who has just married the man of her dreams; Stephen Ransom, her famous and wealthy new husband; and Laurens eleven-year-old son by a first marriage, Garrett, a science buff who knows such alarming facts as Only animals that hunt at night have eyes that glow in the dark when a beam of light hits them.

The Ransoms are hoping to enjoy a summer they will never forget, and LakeHouse does not plan on disappointing them. For concealed within its walls are many, many surprises, and most of them come out only at night

Sub-Topics : Haunted Houses Formats : EPUB