Melanie Tem's chronicles of the terrors that haunt families and the amazing resilience of the human spirit have collected a Bram Stoker award, a British Fantasy Award, and praise both here and abroad. Stephen King said of her first novel, Prodigal, -spectacular, far better than anything by new writers in the hardcover field.- Dan Simmons declared it -A cry from the very heart of the heart of darkness . . . Melanie Tem may well be the literary successor to Shirley Jackson.-
