Mysteries of Winterthurn — Joyce Carol Oates

Lurid, Bloody, Shocking...

The secrets of Winterthurn are as dark and violent as a winter's night. Evil grips the town, smothering its first families in a demonic spell. Innocent babes are eaten away. Honeymooners, mutilated. Gullible girls bludgeoned. Even the minister is not spared. It is left to Xavier Kilgarvan, blinded by love for his seductive, elusive cousin Perdita to put aside family feeling and expose the satanic mysteries of Winterthurn...