The Portal

PAUL RICE travels with his new girlfriend to meet her family and spend a week in their recently renovated home in Lanark Wisconsin where he finds a town haunted by a history of strange killings and disappearances a Catholic priest frightened to come out at night and a teenager who is afraid of his room and sleeps with the light on. By week's end Paul comes face to face with a resident evil that is centuries old very much alive and only waits to be released from a house that has been its dark shrine for generations. This is a well written - and genuinely creepy - story. - Harper Collins Publishers