John Saul

Italy, 1252. Inquisition. Accusation. Fear. Torture. The guilty and the innocent dying for sins real and imagined, in the flames of the burning stake....

One hundred years ago in Port Arbello a pretty little girl began to scream. And struggle. And die. No one heard. No one saw. Just one man whose guilty heart burst in pain as he dashed himself to death in the sea. Now something peculiar is happening in Port Arbello....

What should be a joyful homecoming to Pleasant Valley is soon marred by the sinister force that has been silently lying in wait to satiate its unnatural thirst....

Who is Nathaniel? For 100 years, the people of Prairie Bend have whispered the name in wonder and fear. Some say he is simply a folk tale....

After his father's death sends 15-year-old Ryan McIntyre into an emotional tailspin, he's enrolled at St. Isaac's Catholic boarding school. But troubles are not unknown even at St. Isaac....

Every parent's nightmare becomes a reality for Kara Marshall when her daughter, Lindsay, vanishes from her bedroom during the night....

A terrible deed from the past threatens to overtake the life of a young man only recently rescued from the claws of death....

Thirteen-year-old Angel Sullivan falls in love with her family's new home. But the idyll is soon shattered as Angel learns a shocking secret about the house....

For the first time in 20 years, Kevin Devereaux has returned home to this secluded place with his wife and two children. They have come to visit Kevin's hated, frightening Mother....

An insidious madman haunts the peaceful town of Borrego, New Mexico. His goal is singular, as is the focus of his hate and rage....

It has waited seven years for someone to come back to the rambling lakeside house called Pinecrest....

A century ago, a gentle blind girl walked the cliffs of Paradise Point. Then the children came - taunting, teasing - until she lost her footing and fell....

Something is happening to the children of Eastbury, Massachusetts....

Though Alison lives near beauty-obsessed Beverly Hills, she's fine being a Plain Jane, until she suffers a burn and meets a plastic surgeon. But he may not be what he seems....

After the untimely death of her mother, 14-year-old Sarah Crane is forced to grow up quickly in order to help tend her family's Vermont farm....

Matt Moore has a loving mother, a caring stepfather, a host of friends, and a growing relationship with the most beautiful girl in school. All signs point to a bright future, until fate intervenes....

They call it the Academy: a secluded, cliff-top mansion overlooking the rugged Pacific coast. It's a school for children gifted - or cursed - with extraordinary minds....

Beyond the sparkling Hawaiian beaches, masked by the deceptive beauty of the rainforest, evil awaits 16-year-old Michael Sundquist....

Ted and Mary Anderson have just returned home to Villejeune, Florida, to start again. Little do they know that they will soon be drawn into a nightmare of unholy ceremony and unutterable horror.…

A telephone ringing in the dead of night signals the beginning of a journey into fear as MaryAnne Carpenter hears shocking news....