Sharon D. reviewed on 11/27/2005 + 224 more book reviews

Kevin Decereaux returns home to the Devereaux mansion on an island off the South Carolina coast for the first time in twenty years. He brings with him his wife and two children to visit Kevin's mother - hated, frightening Mother, with her slash of red lipstick, mask of bone-white powder, and a tongue that has always cut to Kevin's heart - and into his darkest nightmares. She said she was ill - but is that the real reason for the old woman summoned the son she has not seen in so many years? Suddenly, horribly, Mother dies inside the locked nursery. And now there will be escape. For now. all the secrets of this once-proud southern family emerge like tortured spirits from the sinister past to wrap their evil around the unsuspecting children. Until, in the shadowed corridors and dust-covered rooms of this decaying old house, they learn the true terror of The Unloved.

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