The Vanishing - by Bentley Little (Paperback)

About the Book

A Beverly Hills businessman slaughters his family and leaves behind a video of the massacre and a cryptic message. Afterwards, children everywhere are disappearing or being killed. Social worker Carrie Daniels wants to know why--and God help her when she finds out. Original.

Book Synopsis

With his novels, "Bentley Little has created nothing less than a nightmarishly brilliant tour de force of modern life in America."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

In Beverly Hills, a wealthy CEO goes on a bloody rampage and videotapes the slaughter. He leaves behind a chilling cryptic message..."This is where it begins."

Miles away, an alarmed mother receives an unsettling letter from her estranged husband, stained with bloody fingerprints.

And all across California, children are becoming affected by a monstrous change--and their parents, by a mounting fear.

Social worker Carrie Daniels and reporter Brian Howells are determined to find the link between these baffling crimes. But they shouldn't look too deeply into the lives of the victims. It's quite dark there. And God help them, they won't like what they find.

Review Quotes

Praise for Bram Stoker Award-Winning Author Bentley Little

"The horror poet laureate...a master of the macabre!"--Stephen King

"[Bentley Little is] on par with such greats as Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Peter Straub."--Midwest Book Review

"Little possesses the uncanny ability to take everyday situations and turn them into nightmares."--Publishers Weekly

"Little has the unparalleled ability to evoke surreal, satiric terror."--Horror Reader

About the Author

Bentley Little is the author of numerous novels, short stories, articles, essays, and reviews. After earning a BA in communications and an MA in English, Little sold his soul and abandoned all artistic integrity, working for eight years as a bureaucrat for a midsized city in Orange County, California. His first novel, The Revelation, won the 1990 Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Award for best first novel.