The Keeper

<h2>She lives in their dreams. They die in hers.</h2> <p>Nothing good can grow in the forgotten town of Bedford. After the closure of the paper mill the town has become a wasteland. A decade of layoffs has caused a collective bitterness leading many inhabitants to alcoholism crime and abuse. The worst symptom however is the nightmare they all share every single night.</p> <p><strong>Susan Marley</strong> haunts their dreams. The object of derision lust and fear she wanders the town barefoot never saying a word. But when she dies betrayed by life one final time Bedford begins to suffer horrors far more terrifying than any vision.</p> <p>What dark secrets has Susan Marley been keeping?</p> <p>And why has she come back?</p> <p><strong>For fans of A. M. Shine and Rebecca Netley <em>The Keeper</em> is a chilling small-town horror from Bram Stoker Award winner Sarah Langan.</strong></p> <p>'Inhabits the mind like a dark lingering smoke' <strong>Jack Ketchum author of <em>Offspring</em></strong></p> <p>'Sarah Langan combines a genuinely poetic sensibility with a taste for horror's most bravura excesses' <strong>Peter Straub author of <em>Ghost Story</em></strong></p>