If There Be Thorns
Edition: 1st Pocket Books printing (27)
Series: Dollanganger Family, #3
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 1988?
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: mass market paperback
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780671648145
Copyright date: 1981
Subjects: Horror - General; Fiction / General; Fiction - Horror; Fiction
First sentence: Whenever Dad didn't drive me home from school, a yellow school bus would let me off at an isolated spot where I would recover my bike from the nearest ravine, hidden there each morning before I stepped onto the bus.
Description: Chris and Cathy made such a loving home for fourteen-year-old Jory — so handsome, so gentle. And for Bart,who had such a dazzling imagination for a nine year old.
Then the lights came on in the house next door. Soon the Old Lady in Black was there, watching them, guarded by her strange old butler. Soon she had Bart over for cookies and ice cream and asked him to call her "Grandmother".

And soon Bart's transformation began...

Fed by the hint of terrible things about his mother and father...leading him into shocking acts of violence.

Now while this little boy trembles on the edge of madness, his anguished parents await the climax to a horror that flowered in an attic long ago, a horror whose thorns are still wet with blood, still tipped with fire.
--back cover