A new, spellbinding ghost-story from the author of The Books of Conjury. Get ready to keep reading late into the night.
Tim Lane's real trouble started on the night he died.
Thirty-eight years later, he's grown used to being a ghost, but he still feels like a teenage loser. Now the demon responsible for his death looks like he's getting ready for a repeat of his homicidal mayhem. To save his family, Tim needs to haunt them straight out of their home. To have any hope of finding his own way into the afterlife proper, he'd better do it before the demon catches on to his plan.
But everything goes sideways when Tim discovers he's not the only ghost trapped in the neighborhood. Worse, the others were all younger than he was when they all died on the same Halloween night in 1981: they're just kids. Determined to rescue them, Tim fights to uncover the demon's blind spot before his one chance at freedom disappears.
The time to work his plan slips away by the minute--but behind his self-deprecating wit and cynical eye emerges a single-minded courage. Tim confronts the one choice he never expected: move on to the afterlife proper, or risk it all to rescue the others, one by one.
Is he still a loser--or can he make the fate of his own soul the least of his concerns?
Vivid and heartfelt, Ghost at Dusk is a haunting novel of friendship and letting go set amid chilling contemporary horror. This darkly funny, unpredictable story will stay with readers long after the last pages