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A History of Fear: A Novel
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This disorienting, creepy, paranoiainducing reimagining of the devilmademedoit tale (Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World) follows the harrowing downfall of a tortured graduate student arrested for murder.Grayson Hale, the most infamous murderer in Scotland, is better known by a different name: the Devils Advocate. The twentyfiveyearold American grad student rose to instant notoriety when he confessed to the slaughter of his classmate Liam Stewart, claiming the Devil made him do it.When Hale is found hanged in his prison cell, officers uncover a handwritten manuscript that promises to answer the question thats haunted the nation for years: was Hale a lunatic, or had he been telling the truth all along?The firstperson narrative reveals an acerbic young atheist, newly enrolled at the University of Edinburgh to carry on the legacy of his recently deceased father. In need of cash, he takes a job ghostwriting a mysterious book for a dark strangerbut he has misgivings when the project begins to reawaken his satanophobia, a rare condition that causes him to live in terror that the Devil is after him. As he struggles to disentangle fact from fear, Graysons world is turned upsidedown after events force him to confront his growing suspicion that hes working for the one he has feared all this timeand that the book is only the beginning of their partnership.A modernday Gothic tale with claws (Jennifer Fawcett, author of Beneath the Stairs), A History of Fear marries dreadinducing atmosphere with heartpalpitating storytelling.
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