This was a really entertaining read for me. The cool part was the way John Saul wrote the story so that you never really get a solid clue as to whether Marie Peterson is a girl with a split personality, or if there was truly a ghost. The story is written so that both possibilities are in play the whole time. There are enough twists and turns to keep you guessing right up till the very end. I would suggest this story to anyone who is looking for something more on the suspense side of things with a little bit of creepy supernatural element thrown in.

An oldie (published 1980), but I would have to say a goodie. Don’t read a lot of horror novels anymore, yet found this book to be well written. Just how I like them, creepy without having to go to the gross out.

Slow and boring. Nothing to see here

This was probably my second favorite of his. I don't really remember anymore what most of them were about, but the title and the cover sure do trigger that "oh my god, that book scared me when I was a teenager" thing.

Entretenida hasta ahí. Una novela muy simple, pero que te atrapa. Lamentablemente, arranca muy tarde.

3,5

La novela presenta varios puntos que en lo personal me gustaron mucho, muñecas, maldiciones familiares, fantasmas,cementerios antiguos, niños malvados. Este último tópico es casi típico del autor. En Ciega como la furia, su atmósfera nos va atrapando mucho, hasta cierto punto creo que Saul es muy cinematográfico a la hora de describir todo el escenario donde se desarrolla la historia, el libro genera cierta incomodidad en cuanto al trato de los personajes, estos están bastante bien desarrollados a lo largo de la novela.
Pero a medida que la historia se va desentramando yo como lector espere un punto culminante, el libro lo tuvo pero sentí que fue muy apresurado.
Nos deja un epílogo bastante siniestro que me gustó, le dio un cierre que la historia merecía.
Me gustó, es una novela de suspenso, que tiene muchísimos rasgos de terror, pero no llega a ser meramente terror.
Lo que destacó si es el poder del autor con su prosa ligera de atraparte y terminarlo como yo en menos de dos semanas.
Tal vez lo leí esperando otra cosa y es por esto que no superó mis expectativas. Pero es un buen libro.

A very fun, short novel and the idea is creepy, confusing a blind girl until she walks off a cliff, fantastic and of course she came back for revenge.
There were a few odds that seems tossed in, but I really enjoyed that the author didn't see the need to save the children and the story flowed quickly and concluded before I had the chance to ponder too closely the pattern threatening boring redundancy.

The Pendleton family arrive at their new home in Paradise Point (a village a couple of hours northeast of Boston). Dr. Calvin Pendleton has switched jobs, from working at a hospital in Boston, to a small clinic in Paradise Point. After treating a small boy in Boston who had an accident and died (he fell from a roof) Cal now feels guilty over the boy's death and is questioning his abilities/judgment. Another doctor that originally worked on the boy, who happened to be from Paradise Point, suggested that Cal move there and take up practice in the small village. He even sold his house to Cal. So Cal moves from Boston to Paradise Point with his family---his pregnant wife June, and their twelve-year-old adopted daughter Michelle.

One day, while unpacking, Michelle finds an old-fashioned antique doll in her closet and she names it Amanda. She later finds out from her friends at school that there's rumors of a ghost that roams the cliffs of Paradise Point---the ghost of a twelve-year-old blind girl that fell off the cliff to her death after being taunted by her classmates over a hundred years ago, and her name was Amanda. Michelle and her friends find it odd that she happened to name the doll Amanda. And Michelle is also starting to have dreams, and visions, of a small girl, dressed in black, wearing old-fashioned clothes, calling to her. One day, while at a picnic with some friends at the cove, Michelle gets picked on and taunted/teased for being adopted. Her mother recently gave birth to a new daughter, Jenny, and a cruel classmate suggests her parents won't love her anymore. Hurt, Michelle runs away, and has an accident. She now has trouble walking and is alone alot. She is being picked on by the kids at school. She wants a friend, someone who loves her. Amanda seems to be calling to her. Amanda will be her friend...

I don't want to give too much more away, but I really enjoyed this book. It was an absorbing, eerie, and sometimes sad read. I liked Michelle, she was a really sweet and likable young girl. She went from being outgoing and friendly to anti-social and alone. Some of the secondary characters I liked, some were annoying. I really hated Michelle’s mean classmate Susan! And although I liked Michelle’s father Cal at the beginning of the book, as the story progressed he turned into a real jerk/wimp. I did like the people who were noticing the changes in Michelle and tried to help her, like her teacher Corinne Hatcher and her mother, June. Michelle’s friend Sally was likable too. This story had good atmosphere---the cemetery, the cliffs, the sea, the fog, the ghost Amanda (Amanda always appeared with the fog swirling around her). This was my first read by John Saul and I look forward to reading more books by this author in the future.

A great psychological thriller, just creepy enough to give you goosebumps. Ancient past associated with the family who lived in the house come to light when new people who were not related to the original family move into the house and a doll appears. The story moves quickly and has a very surprising ending. This is John Saul at his best.

I read this book many years ago (early 80's). This was probably my favorite book by John Saul. I remember that it scared the crap out of me. I could not leave the cover face up beside my bed at night. I had my teenage daughter read it many years later & she did not find it as scary as I did. Kids today don't seem to scare as easy as kids did in the 80's.

A ghost story. A horror novel. Sorry, but not scary in the least. At least it had an interesting plot.

I haven't read this in years. My rating may change if I were to read it now. I just remember loving the premise of this book, I would read it over and over again.