Rick Hautala: 24 books

November, 1694. Rachel Parsons, an accused witch, is hanged at the Gallows Tree in Summerfield, Maine. Before she dies, she curses all who live on her land. Her words end with the creak of the rope as the ladder is pulled out from under her. Autumn, 1963. A retarded boy is chased into the old, abandoned...

THE EVIL GLOW OF THE MOON... lit the path as twelve-year-old Billy Wilson walked past the bog. He knew he shouldn't have gone near the inky shadows of the swamp — but something forced him to come closer to the yawning darkness, the suffocating tangle, the flesh-tearing brambles of Holland Bog. THE MURKY DEPTHS OF THE BOG... sucked the boy into its fetid earth and claimed its human sacrifice.

THE DOOR TO THE PAST IS … THE GATEWAY TO HELL Jeff Wagner has come home to Maine. HOME … where, years ago, unspeakable fear and abuse ruled his life. HOME … where Jeff and his sister sought secret, sinful refuge in each other's arms. HOME … where Jeff's brother Jeremy was terrified out of...

Cindy Toland knows that her sister's violent death was no accident. She knows her abusive brother-in-law too well... knows the dark, brutal things he's capable of doing. But ten-year-old Billy and his kid sister Krissy know something their Aunt Cindy doesn't. It's about the blue lady who comes late at night and whispers strange things. Even though she lives beyond the grave.

Surviving a serious car accident, Pamela Gardner walks away from the hospital physically unharmed—yet haunted by missing time, blackouts, and visions. A shadowy killer is closing in, but is he just a figment of her fractured imagination? As darkness arrives, so will the truth.

In Dyer, Maine, the dead won't stay buried! The people of Dyer liked their quaint little farming community just the way it was. So they didn't question the bizarre, unexplained disappearances that had begun to plague their town. No one talked about the hideous screams that shattered their sleep, nor...

THE COLORS OF FEAR From the moment she and Vincent move into their new home in Maine, Lara DeSalvo is tormented by killer migraines and eerie visions: a young woman with a pale face and glowing eyes who warns of an unnamable danger … her mother, damning her soul from beyond the grave … a looming,...

IT'S IN YOUR HOUSE You think you've built your dream house. But you're wrong. Dead wrong. You think you've built the perfect place for you and your husband to raise your kids. But listen to the warnings. The whispers in the night. The threats scrawled on the walls. Someone wants your family...

ONLY THE DEAD ARE TRULY SAFE. A young girl killed on a desolate highway. A mother agonized by unceasing guilt. In the vivid light of day, in the nightmare depths of sleep, her daughter calls to her from the grave. And soon she'll know if the voices she hears intend a warning only...

In the shadowy quiet of a secluded Maine house, a terrified woman goes to a box in the closet, and removes a gun … From the crime-ridden streets of New York City, a homicidal madman drives north, his mind best by demons, his heart burning with hate … They have been joined by blood...