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The Parasite

(1980)
(To Wake the Dead)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
1981 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel

Twenty years after a game of Ouija ends in a ten-year-old's disappearance, Rose Tierney discovers that she has developed psychic powers that enable her to see into the future and travel without her body, but that make her vulnerable to an evil force.


Genre: Horror

Praise for this book

"One of the scariest, most important novels of horror and the occult that I've read in a long time." - Stephen King

"The book Ramsey Campbell readers have been waiting for...affects the reader for days afterward...it makes death itself look sweet because of the ghastly things that can happen this side of death." - Peter Straub


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