Phantom

First published 1982

Ten year old Ned Covington is afraid. There are monsters in his room. His friends think he is imagining them. But he knows they are real. The grownups say they will go away in the daylight. But it's daytime now. And they're coming after him. Phantom is the story of what happens when the lights come on... and the horror doesn't go away.

• “Chilling!”Library Journal
• “A touching, scary book.”Horror Literature: A Reader's Guide
• “A compelling humanist ghost story.”Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural
• “Its elegance and tenderness and taste make it something very special in the field of horror. I won't be able to get the book or its characters out of my mind for weeks.”Peter Straub
• “The tension rises like a frightful fever and then peaks at nightmare.”Publishers Weekly
• “A satisfyingly terrifying ghost story... combines wild flights of fancy with a seriously beautiful style.”Library Journal
• “Terror and a not quite understandable mysticism combine to make Phantom one of the more exciting novels of its kind.”Los Angeles Times

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