Gerald and Jessie Burlingame have gone to their summer home on a warm weekday in October for a romantic interlude. After being handcuffed to her bedposts, Jessie tires of her husband's games, but when Gerald refuses to stop she lashes out at him with deadly consequences. Still handcuffed, she is trapped and alone. Painful memories from her childhood bedevil her. Her only company is a hungry stray dog and the sundry voices that populate her mind. As night comes, she is unsure whether it is her imagination or if she has another companion: someone watching her from the corner of her dark bedroom.
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Genres
- Horror tales
- Fiction
- Horror
- Horror fiction
- American fiction
- married people
- sexual behavior
- women
- fear
- Adult child sexual abuse victims
- incest
- Sadomasochism
- terror
- Translations into German
- Large type books
- Fiction, horror
- New York Times reviewed
- Mental illness
- FICTION / Horror
- FICTION / Literary
- Castle Rock (Me. : Imaginary place)
- Sexualité dans le mariage
- Romans, nouvelles
- Peur
- Castle Rock (Maine : Imaginary place)
- Burlingame, jessie (fictitious character), fiction
- Maine, fiction
- Mystery & Detective - General
- Fiction - Mystery/ Detective
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