One of the finest and best-selling horror novels of the 1970s returns at last to chill a new generation of readers In the isolated farming community of Harlowe, New Hampshire, where life has changed little over the past several decades, John Moore and his wife Mim work the land that has been in his family for generations. --Dayton News.
This just could prove to be one of the top thrillers of the year.
Add a powerful twist at the end and you have a total novel that takes hold of the reader on Page One and never lets go until the finish. . . a tight classic.-- San Diego Tribune Brilliant, compelling . . . a powerful book from a powerful writer.-- The Grand Rapids Press A novel you may never forget . . .
Samson has written a suspenseful, engrossing novel with the most gripping and violent ending we\'ve encountered for some time.-- Newsday A frightening novel .
For all their talk, the author seems to be saying, men will permit their souls to be carried away bit by bit and auctioned off to the highest bidder. there is no way to stop reading it, once you\'ve started! - Baltimore Sun A well-made piece of dynamite ...
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With echoes of Shirley Jackson\'s The Lottery and Stephen King\'s Needful Things , Samson\'s novel returns to print at last in this long-awaited new edition, which features an introduction by Grady Hendrix ( Horrorstör , Paperbacks from Hell ).
A chilling masterpiece of terror whose sense of creeping menace and dread increases page by page, Joan Samson\'s The Auctioneer (1975) is a rediscovered classic of 20th-century fiction.
As the Auctioneer carries out his terrible, inscrutable plan, the Moores and their neighbors will find themselves gradually but inexorably stripped of their possessions, their freedom, and perhaps even their lives ...
But from the moment the charismatic Perly Dunsmore arrives in town and starts soliciting donations for his auctions, things begin slowly and insidiously to change in Harlowe.
One of the finest and best-selling horror novels of the 1970s returns at last to chill a new generation of readers In the isolated farming community of Harlowe, New Hampshire, where life has changed little over the past several decades, John Moore and his wife Mim work the land that has been in his family for generations
