Title: Phantom nights
Description: The year is 1952. Fourteen-year-old Alex Gambier is rebellious by nature and scarred by childhood tragedy in the southern community of Evening Shade. An outcast in his own family, mute from a bout with diptheria at an early age, Alex expresses himself by writing imaginative stories and by conceiving daredevil stunts that test all of his physical rescources while putting his life in extreme danger.

The aftermath of one of his hair-raising stunts finds Alex in the care of a young black nurse named Mally Shaw. An unlikely friendship results, which is ended by an unspeakable crime that costs Mally her life.

Or not quite ended, for Mally finds herself trapped in a nether world by the force of Alex's will and his need to exact a terrifying revenge on the man responsible for Mally's death.
But the revenge he seeks is a two-edged sword, the price Alex's own soul as he recklessly pursues his quarry in a chilling double twist climax that surpasses anything John Farris has written before.
Subjects: Southern States in fiction, Teenage boys, Psychological fiction, Mute persons in fiction, Teenage boys in fiction, Mute persons, Revenge, Crimes against, Fiction, Daredevils, African American nurses, Friendship in fiction, Historical fiction, Revenge in fiction, Horror tales, Friendship, Daredevils in fiction, African American nurses in fiction, Fiction, horror, African americans, fiction, Friendship, fiction, Southern states, fiction
Places: Southern States