The Hellfire Club
By: Peter Straub.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 463
ISBN-13: 9780679401377
Copyright date: 1996
Subjects: Publishers and publishing -- Fiction; Women -- Crimes against -- Fiction; Serial murders -- Fiction; Kidnapping -- Fiction; Connecticut -- Fiction
Description: In The Hellfire Club, Peter Straub has not only created a villain as diabolical, clever, and fascinating as Hannibal Lecter, but has also written his most gripping, concentrated, and startling novel to date. At stake are the fates of both a loyal and courageous woman and a long-established publishing house.

Nora Chancel, struggling to maintain her marriage, well-being, and independence, is unwillingly drawn into a treacherous double mystery: One of the strands involves a series of vicious murders; the other concerns an otherworldly novel so influential that its most ardent admirers literally give over their lives to it.