This edition, the first in decades, features a new introduction by award-winning author Stephen Graham Jones. The basis for a classic 1976 film adaptation and an acknowledged influence on Stephen King’s The Shining, Burnt Offerings is one of the most original and scariest haunted house novels ever written.

As the suspense builds towards a revelation of what really lies behind that locked door, the Rolfes will discover that their cheap vacation rental comes at a terrible cost. Allardyce never seems to emerge from her room, and it soon becomes clear that something weird and terrifying is happening in the house. Allardyce, and the Rolfes will be responsible for preparing her meals.īut Mrs. It’s a slow burn read designed to build the kind of terror that comes from extended exposure to a threat you can’t name, that you may even blame yourself for and which you. It’s not in a hurry, It’s not looking for the quick spike of fear that comes from slash-and-splash action. This edition consisted of only 150 signed and numbered copies plus a low number. Burnt Offerings is nineteen-seventies classic horror. There’s only one catch: behind a strange and intricately carved door in a distant wing of the house lives elderly Mrs. Like new condition, Burnt Offerings by Robert Marasco, Centipede Press 2011. When they get the chance to rent a mansion in upstate New York for the entire summer for only 900, it’s an offer that’s too good to refuse. With a new introduction by Stephen Graham Jonesīen and Marian Rolfe are desperate to escape a stifling summer in their cramped and noisy Queens apartment, so when they get the chance to rent a mansion in upstate New York for the entire summer for only $900, it’s an offer that’s too good to refuse. BURNT OFFERINGS Robert Marasco 1973 Valancourt Books Rating: 5/5 stars Ben and Marian Rolfe are desperate to escape a stifling summer in their tiny Brooklyn apartment.

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