Shrine by Herbert, James - 1984-01-01

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: Genuine 1st Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1984* Publisher: NEL Books.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers showing a girl facing front against a white ground with red and black titles to spine and face. No bumps or rubs. Minor shelf wear & creases to edges & corners. Reading creases & dish to spine, no crease to hinge. Seems lightly-used if at all. GD++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, very slight paper colouration to page margins, top and for-edge. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 433 pp. text. v pp. blank pages and advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- A horror novel by the author of "The Fog". The story is about Alice Pagett, a deaf-mute child who's cured one night when she runs to an oak tree behind St. Joseph's, her local church. She's found by reporter Gerry Fenn and, when news of her cure spreads, their village becomes ablaze with publicity. After Alice performs several "miracle" cures in front of the tree, and claims to have seen the Virgin Mary there, it starts to be treated as a Lourdes-like shrine by Catholic pilgrims. St. Joseph's priest, Father Hagan, however, senses spiritual danger. Alice is no longer the guileless child overwhelmed by her new saintliness. She has become the agent of something corrupt, a vile force that is centuries-old. Innocence and evil have become one.* This is a VG text copy of the 1st./1st thus. with absolutely minor age and some reading wear.*