Floating Dragon

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'Floating Dragon racks you with suspense Straub is a master at having whole communities rocked by the forces of wickedness.' Observer The terrors afflicting the sleepy town of Hampstead, Connecticut, were beyond imagination. Sparrows dropping dead from the trees like rotten fruit, disfiguring diseases spreading like wildfire, inexplicable murders and child drownings shattering the lives of the citizens - never can such a list of horrors have afflicted one town. But the evil madness had a long history. A catastrophe had struck Hampstead every thirty years since its foundation 300 years before - yet only Graham Williams, a writer and descendant of one of the original founders, had looked into the 'black summers' and their mysterious origins. When he discovers that descendants of the three other original settlers are back living in the town, he knows it will be the blackest summer yet

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'Floating Dragon racks you with suspense, keeps you on tenterhooks ... No one is better than Straub at having whole communities rocked by the forces of wickedness' Observer 'His best, his most horrifying. Straub seems determined to create a richer, more complex fictional world ... Vastly entertaining' New York Times Book Review 'Enough epic horrors to satiate the most avid fan of scare fare. An accomplished writer and an inventor of skilfully individualized, convincing characters' Publishers Weekly 'The most deliciously frightening horror novel to come along in years' Spectator 'Straub takes horror a long way beyond the obvious, but keeps his terrifying events down to earth' Mail on Sunday

Author Bio

Peter Straub was born in Milwaukee, and is the author of fourteen novels, including Ghost Story and The Talisman (with Stephen King). He has won two British Fantasy Awards, two Bram Stoker Awards and the International Horror Guild Award. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages.