John Saul

Just as their troubled marriage is reaching the breaking point, Ted and Janet Conway inherit a home that has been in the family for more than a century. Eager to make a new beginning, the Conways and their three children head for the promise of a better life in the small Louisiana town of St. Albans. But within the long-abandoned, sprawling Victorian manse lies the dark history of the Conway name - a grim bloodline poisoned by suicide, strange disappearances,...

Alison's new stepfather, the charismatic plastic surgeon Peter Dunn, is certain he can turn Alison into a vision of loveliness. Reluctantly, Alison agrees to undergo the first procedure, and her transformation begins. But soon Alison discovers a picture of Peter's first wife. To Alison's horror, she notices a resemblance between the image in the photo and the work her stepfather is doing on her.--From publisher description.

Eric Brewster is looking forward to a summer spent in the lakeside mansion of Dr. Hector Darby, a researcher into the minds of serial killers who mysteriously vanished years earlier, but the season turns deadly when Eric and his friends become obsessed with a cache of strange, broken items--including bladeless hacksaws, a headless axe handle, and shadeless lamps--hidden in the carriage house.

Karen Spellman returns to the countryside of her childhood, Pleasant Valley, to marry her high school sweetheart unaware that something sinister waits.

After his father's untimely death sends fifteen-year old Ryan McIntyre into an emotional tailspin, his mother enrolls him in St. Isaac's Catholic boarding school, hoping the venerable insitution with a reputation for transforming wayward teens can work its magic on her son. But little did they know that Ryan would be faced with dark and evil practices.

After the sudden and unexplained deaths of MaryAnne Carpenter's best friends, she finds herself raising her orphaned godchild and guarding her own children against an unseen and insatiable killer.

In the aftermath of a derranged killer's execution, a similar series of murders picks up where the others left off, suggesting a copycat killer is on the loose, but reporter Anne Jeffers suspects that the wrong man was put to death.

They call it the Academy. A secluded cliff-top mansion overlooking the rugged Pacific coast. A school for children gifted-or cursed with extraordinary minds.

Genetic experimentation creates a conspiracy of silence and fear for families in Eastbury, Massachusetts.

Unfortunately for nine-year-old Christie Lyons she will be the first child in fifty years to live in the house on the hill where only horror awaits her.