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The crying child

Barbara Michaels

1971205 pagesabout 3–5 hours
1971
first published
  • 1971Dodd, Mead · 273 pages · ENGISBN 9780396063926
  • 1971Souvenir Press · 273 pages · ENGISBN 9780285620681
  • 1974Pan Books · 205 pages · ENGISBN 9780330239820
  • 1981Ulverscroft · 349 pages · ENGISBN 9780708905685
  • 1995Thorndike Press · 329 pages · ENGISBN 9780786203536
  • 2007HarperCollins · ENGISBN 9780061234316
  • 1989Berkley · 234 pages · ENGISBN 9780425115848
  • 2007Harper · 320 pages · ENGISBN 9780060828608

Joanne McMullen's fears for her sister's sanity have brought her to remote King's Island, Maine. Mary's grief over the loss of her child is threatening to send her over the edge—and her insistence that she has heard an eerie, childlike wailing in the woods fuels Joanne's anxiety. And now Mary's taken to disappearing at midnight in search of the source of the heartrending moans. But it's not just her sister's encroaching madness that is chilling Joanne's blood—it's her own. Because suddenly, impossibly, she also hears the crying child.

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