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First Ballantine Books Edition: August 1978
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Blurb:
"HORROR AND SUSPENSE - BLEND BRILLIANTLY...A TAUT THRILLER
CALCULATED TO SCARE
THE BEJABBERS OUT OF ANYONE!"
-New York Post
THE VATICAN, 5TH CENTURY A.D.
Pope Gregory has ordered to be sealed forever the ninth Gregorian chant-a profane, unholy invocation to the devil.
SAN FRANCISCO, 1977
Emily Blake has begun to hear strange disembodied voices calling to her in her home.
Her husband's lover has burned
to death, in a chair, behind a locked door.
The ancient charge of murder
by witchcraft has been leveled at Emily...
Emily whose only hope may be a grotesque eleven-year-old boy with a demonic sexual craving. A little boy who has already taken her once, evilly.
A little boy who taught
her the tune of a chant unheard for fifteen-hundred years...“