Done as a double novel with volume I (A Journal Of Familial Maledictions) on one side and volume 2 (The Curse Continues) on the reverse. |
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"Once I assured August Derleth that I was applying his editorial suggestions to the first drafts of the Lovecratian tales I'd sent him in September 1961, he announced my forthcoming collection in the 1963 Arkham House bulletin. The book bore one of Arkham's phantom titles, THE BOX IN THE PRIORY, ...
When their car broke down in a dangerous neighborhood of the inner city, Kerri and her friends thought they would find shelter in the old dark row house. They thought it was abandoned. They thought they would be safe there until morning. They were wrong on all counts...
As in a dream I swayed to the gilded coffin. I tore away the paneling and lifted the lid, and then I knew it was no dream, for dreams cannot approach the horror that was the creature lying within, with eyes like a midnight demon's and a face of loathesome delirium. It was smiling, too, as it lay ...