Ben and Marian Rolfe are desperate to escape a stifling summer in their tiny Brooklyn apartment, so when they get the chance to rent a mansion in upstate New York for the entire season for only $900, it\'s an offer that\'s too good to refuse. - New York Times. - Publishers Weekly Terrifies even by daylight.
It snares you early and draws you inexorably to one of the most nerve-shattering finales in years. . . - Hartford Courant Insidiously frightening .
Better than Rosemary\'s Baby , The Other , and The Exorcist . - Stephen King Burnt Offerings has no peer. highly recommended. . . a disturbing tale . . . [N]ear brilliance .
This edition, the first in decades, features a new introduction by award-winning author Stephen Graham Jones.
The basis for a classic 1976 film adaptation and an acknowledged influence on Stephen King\'s The Shining, Burnt Offerings is one of the most original and scariest haunted house novels ever written. . .
As the suspense builds towards a revelation of what really lies behind that locked door, the Rolfes will discover that their cheap vacation rental comes at a terrible cost .
Allardyce never seems to emerge from her room, and it soon becomes clear that something weird and terrifying is happening in the house.
But Mrs.
Allardyce, and the Rolfes will be responsible for preparing her meals.
There\'s only one catch: behind a strange and intricately carved door in a distant wing of the house lives elderly Mrs.
Ben and Marian Rolfe are desperate to escape a stifling summer in their tiny Brooklyn apartment, so when they get the chance to rent a mansion in upstate New York for the entire season for only $900, it\'s an offer that\'s too good to refuse
