Father John has spent his life in restraint, numbing his desires with prayer, cold showers, and jigsaw puzzles. His vows have held, until Debra Rocks, an adult film actress with a plea for salvation, enters his confessional. Her perfume lingers, her voice haunts, and Father John’s obsession begins. Drawn to the neon-lit alley near his church, he risks both his soul and hers in a fight against temptation and death.
This is “Blue World,” the novella that headlines Robert McCammon’s World Fantasy Award. Within these pages, monsters walk, demons whisper, and killers stalk. Yet the darkest horrors McCammon explores are the ones festering inside us: obsession, fear, and the wilderness of a broken soul.
Macabre, masterful, unforgettable.
