For over half a century, Richard Matheson has enthralled and terrified readers
with such timeless classics as "I Am Legend," "The Incredible Shrinking Man,"
"Duel," "Somewhere in Time," and "What Dreams May Come." Now the Grand Master
returns with a bewitching tale of erotic suspense and enchantment.... 1918. A
young American soldier recently wounded in the Great War, Alex White comes to
Gatford to escape his troubled past. The pastoral English village seems the
perfect spot to heal his wounded body and soul. True, the neighboring woods are
said to be haunted by capricious, even malevolent, spirits, but surely those are
just old wives' tales. Aren't they?