NOS4A2

Summer in Massachusetts. An old Silver Wraith with a frightening history. A story about one serial killer and his lingering, unfinished business. Anyone could be next. We're going to Christmasland. NOS4R2 is an old-fashioned horror novel in the best sense - claustrophobic, gripping and terrifying, it is the horrific tale of Charles Manx, a devilish protagonist who uses his supernatural powers in a ghastly mission to kidnap and kill dozens of children. Young Victoria McQueen has a gift for finding things. All she has to do is ride her bike through the Shorter Way Bridge and she'll come out wherever she needs to be. It's an ability she needs to keep secret because no one would understand it. Until she discovers she's not the only one with a special gift. Charles Manx takes children for rides in his 1938 Rolls Royce with its NOS4R2 vanity plate, driving them away from their families, homes and even their own humanity. When they reach their destination they have changed, utterly and have become Charlie's children, as unstoppable and insane as Manx himself. Only Viv McQueen escaped and that was just the beginning of their life-and-death battle of wills which explodes a quarter of a century later. 689pp in chunky paperback.