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Title:

Reign
 

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Genres:

Horror

Editions:

# Date Publisher Binding Cover
1 1990-09-00 Dark Harvest  

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Blurb: 
From IBList One question raised by any horror story is: Why, if its supernatural monsters exist, haven"t they been encountered before? Williamson ( Ash Wednesday ) resolves this problem in a believable, elegant manner, grounding his thoroughly enjoyable novel in our "normal" world. The story centers around a renovated theater in Pennsylvania and is arranged in three acts, plus overture and curtain call. The tension in Act I heightens as the reader must decide if this is a murder mystery, psychodrama, horror or fantasy, with Williamson offering clues to support each possibility. Theaters have a history of ghosts and accidents, but as the number of deaths at the Venetian mounts, the police become less inclined to accept verdicts of "accident." Owner/actor Dennis Hamilton has nothing obvious to gain from the killings, nor could he have caused them, but his strange behavior makes others wonder if he might not have a double or another personality--or something else entirely--that does want the deaths. Williamson"s inventive resolution is sure to satisfy. Nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel in 1990.