The Boy Who Killed Demons

The Boy Who Killed DemonsSo begins the latest novel by horror master Dave Zeltserman. The setting is quiet Newton, Massachussetts, where nothing ever happens. Nothing, that is, until two months after Henry Dudlows 13th birthday, when his neighbor, Mr. Hanley, suddenly starts to look . . . different. While everyone else sees a balding man with a beer belly, Henry suddenly sees a nasty, bilious, rage filled demon. Once Henry catches onto the real Mr. Hanley, he starts to see

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Percival has no choice but to send him away

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a tentative peace has been struck

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her bed--but really

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He had already made up his mind to run

the devil will have her due

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