A night of joy ends in tragedy as Robert and Loraine Cordette are involved in a car accident. As her husband lay dying, an old woman offers Loraine a gift; her husband's life in exchange for her first daughter's essence. Apprehensive, but afraid to lose her husband, Loraine takes the deal and loses consciousness. Several days pass, and Loraine wakes in the hospital. She learns that none of the events from the accident is as she remembers. The doctor blames her head injury for her altered memory, and she begins to believe the explanations, until she discovers there is a new baby on the way. Nine months later, Diana is born. As the young girl grows, Loraine knows something is wrong. Diana is smart, strong, manipulative and wicked. Robert blames Loraine for the girl's behavior, but Loraine knows the truth. The Witch of Eden Falls stole her real daughter from her, and all that remains is a shell of pure evil that is ripping her family apart. Will the witch claim what is hers, or can Loraine save her family from the evil that is dwelling within?

A night of joy ends in tragedy as Robert and Loraine Cordette are involved in a car accident. As her husband lay dying, an old woman offers Loraine a gift; her husbands life in exchange for her first daughters essence. Apprehensive, but afraid to lose her husband, Loraine takes the deal and loses consciousness. Several days pass, and Loraine wakes in the hospital. She learns that none of the events from the accident is as she remembers. The doctor blames her head injury for her altered memory, and she begins to believe the explanations, until she discovers there is a new baby on the way. Nine months later, Diana is born. As the young girl grows, Loraine knows something is wrong. Diana is smart, strong, manipulative and wicked. Robert blames Loraine for the girls behavior, but Loraine knows the truth. The Witch of Eden Falls stole her real daughter from her, and all that remains is a shell of pure evil that is ripping her family apart. Will the witch claim what is hers, or can Loraine save her family from the evil that is dwelling within?

The third volume in this classic series contains critical entries, each complete with a plot synopsis, on nearly 2,000 horror films, from early chillers such as Nosferatu, to modern chillers like Single White Female.

'There' says Alice Hayward to Reverend Stephen Drew, when she come up out of the water after her baptism. Just a few short hours later, Alice is dead, shot by her abusive husband who turned the gun on himself soon after. Tortured by the cryptic finality of that short utterance, Reverend Drew feels his faith in God slipping away as he tries to unearth the truth behind Alice's death. Only new arrival Heather Laurent -- the enigmatic author of wildly successful books about angels -- seems able to save him from slipping into the depths of despair. Heather has her own story. She survived a childhood that culminated in her own parents' murder-suicide, so she identifies deeply with Alice's daughter, Katie, offering herself as a mentor to the girl and a shoulder for Stephen. But then the state's attorney begins to suspect that Alice's husband may not have killed himself . . . and finds out that Alice had secrets only her minister knew. Related through the eyes of four different narrators, Secrets of Edenis both a haunting literary thriller and a deeply evocative testament to the inner complexities that mark all of our lives. Once again, Chris Bohjalian has given us a riveting page-turner in which nothing is precisely what it seems.