You Don't Scare Me

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基本信息·出版社：Forge Books
·页码：304 页
·出版日期：2007年04月
·ISBN：0312850646
·International Standard Book Number：0312850646
·条形码：9780312850647
·EAN：9780312850647
·版本：1st
·装帧：精装
·正文语种：英语

内容简介 Jubilation County, Georgia, Ten Years Ago:
 Chase Emrick was fourteen when her mother married Crow Tillman. Maybe it was his creepy name, or his sinister good looks; maybe it was the glass eye with the bolt of lightning for a pupil that he kept covered with a black eye patch, or maybe it was the rattlesnake tattoo that curled around his left wrist onto his hand, but for some reason, Chase never trusted Crow. Then one terrifying night of horror proved what Chase had felt all along . . . Crow Tillman was pure evil.
New Haven, Connecticut, Present Day:
Crow Tillman is ten years dead, but he hasn’t stopped haunting Chase Emrick. Everyone she’s ever been close to suffers horrible fates, leaving Chase all alone in this world. Haunted by Crow, she has spent the last ten years of her life proving mathematically that a dimension lies unseen in our reality--one where the dead can inflict their will on the living: a netherworld of horror where Crow Tillman is in complete control.
            Adam Cameron is a campus cop, and he’s utterly smitten by Chase’s frailty, beauty, and genius. But getting close to Chase drags Adam into a world he didn’t bargain for and head to head with the essence of evil and the reality of death. There is only one way to get Crow Tillman to leave Chase alone: To battle him, you must first die.
 
作者简介 JOHN FARRIS is the 2002 Horror Writers' Association Lifetime Achievement Award winner and the author of numerous New York Times bestsellers including, The Fury, When Michael Calls, and Soon She Will Be Gone. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
媒体推荐   "A legend among thriller novelists."--Dean Koontz "America's premier novelist of terror."--Stephen King "The godfather of thriller writers."--F. Paul Wilson
专业书评 From Publishers Weekly

A young woman's tussle with a malignant predator from beyond the grave drives this bold new supernatural thriller from bestseller Farris (Phantom Nights). In the early chapters, which crackle with electrifying suspense, Chase Emrick recounts her terrifying childhood abduction by her creepy stepfather, Crow Tillman, who commits suicide and nearly takes her to the afterlife with him. Now a math student at Yale, Chase finds herself constantly fending off attacks from Crow as he distills his evil essence into a variety of menacing forms in order to reclaim her. Realizing her only hope is to beat him on his own turf, Chase debarks for the Netherworld of the dead for a final showdown. Once in the Netherworld, the narrative shifts into film-script form, an audacious but not entirely effective trick, and it nearly dissipates the story's hitherto relentless momentum. To Farris's credit, he redeems the tale with a killer ending that shows why he's still one of the most dependable writers of horror working today. (Apr.)
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From Booklist

Mama has been widowed for three years when she marries twice-divorced druggie and domestic abuser Crow Tillman in a casino, literally sickening her 14-year-old daughter, Chase, and throwing younger son Jimmy into a tailspin retreat to his tree house. Ten years after Crow tragically goes "off the deep end," former New Haven Divinity School student-turned-campus-cop Adam Cameron crushes big time on math grad student Chase, whom he rescues from an oncoming bus. Chase has fits of blepharospasm--dangerous, post-traumatic episodes that leave her unable to open her eyes for two or three minutes. The long-dead Crow haunts her, and that has induced her to formulate mathematical theories of unseen dimensions that control reality. When the only way to loosen Crow's hold on Chase is to battle him in the netherworld, Adam takes up the gauntlet. Veteran horror master Farris puts new readers and established fans on the edge of their seats via compelling characterization and ratcheting up the tension at every turn of a well-crafted plot. Whitney Scott
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文摘 Chapter One The first time Mama brought Crow Tillman around to the house, about three weeks after she’d met him, it was clear she already was head-over-heels. He hugged her a lot and gave her little kisses that had her simpering and said how glad he was to finally meet us. Us being me and my brother Jimmy. This was October, and about three years to the day they’d put Daddy in the ground. I didn’t know what to think of Crow Tillman at first. Didn’t much care for his name, that was for sure. “Crow.” Wasn’t short for anything, or if it was, he never said. That’s the name went on their marriage license later on. Too soon to suit Jimmy and me. Anyway, he was tall, maybe six-two. Raven hair that he wore like an Indian, combed straight back and down over his shirt collar. Thick enough that he didn’t have to gel or spray it. Said he had Choctaw blood. No reason to doubt him. He was plenty good-looking. The black eye patch didn’t detract from his looks. He was lean and looked strong. A sharp dresser except for a ratty Richard Petty–style rancher’s straw with a couple kitchen matches stuck in the band. He wore starched pressed Wranglers and rattlesnake-skin boots. There were little gold chains across the insteps. He wore gold chains around his neck and three gold rings. Only one tat, unless there were others in places I’d never see. But that tattoo was scary. What happened to your eye? I asked him right off. Mama just took a deep breath and held it. But I’d always spoke exactly what was on my mind, and at fourteen I wasn’t about to change. Lost it when I was ridin bulls in the PBR, Crow said. Did I say he smiled a lot? Too much, I was thinking. People who smiled all the time, in my estimation, didn’t have a lot of humor in them. As we all learned later, that went double f
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