Book description
Forty years ago, Spenser Mallon led a group of young students to
witness a brutal, ritual murder. The survivors never recovered. Now it
seems he's back...The charismatic and cunning Spenser Mallon is a campus
guru in the 1960s, attracting the devotion and demanding sexual favors
of his young acolytes. After he invites his most fervent followers to
attend a secret ritual in a local meadow, the only thing that remains is
a gruesomely dismembered body-and the shattered souls of all who were
present. Years later, one man attempts to understand what happened to
his wife and to his friends by writing a book about this horrible night,
and it's through this process that they begin to examine the unspeakable
events that have bound them in ways they cannot fathom, but that have
haunted every one of them through their lives. As each of the old
friends tries to come to grips with the darkness of the past, they find
themselves face-to-face with the evil triggered so many years earlier.
Unfolding through the individual stories of the fated groups members, A
Dark Matter is an electric, chilling, and unpredictable novel that will
satisfy Peter Straub's many ardent fans, and win him legions more.
