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eBook Category: Horror
eBook Description: Two years ago, Claire Challis's four-year-old son disappeared without a trace. Now, a neighbor's child has vanished right outside of her apartment. Determined to discover the fate of her missing son, Claire sets out on a quest that will lead to a place of madness, horror, and fate worse than death and she'll come face to face with Balak...

eBook Publisher: Wildside Press, Published: USA, 2000
Fictionwise Release Date: July 2002

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Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [1.0 MB], eReader (PDB) [345 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [336 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [296 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [336 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [329 KB], hiebook (KML) [757 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [417 KB], iSilo (PDB) [275 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [343 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [400 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [446 KB]
Words: 99525
Reading time: 284-398 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
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From dreams filled with strange, beautiful images and haunting music, Claire Challis woke to the repulsive sound of a nasal, falsetto voice scratching its way through her closed bedroom window; the kind of voice adults reserve for speaking to pets or very small children. A particularly annoying case of the latter, she decided, for the voice was crooning, "My, don't we look fine in our Sunday best! Are you going to church, young man?"

From her second floor apartment, she could hear only an indistinct, mumbled response, but she thought it came from little Paul Hernandez, who lived next door. A momentary silence ensued, and then she heard, "Are you going with your parents?"

Claire couldn't help but shudder at the dry, coarse quality of the voice. The speaker sounded like an elderly man, but the intentional distortion of his speech impressed her as vaguely sinister. Little Paul must have answered in the affirmative, for the speaker continued, "You look so cute. How would you like to go with me to myyy church?"

From the author, Mark Rainey:

"BALAK, like much of my fiction, is a part of a multi-layered, interconnected universe that draws heavily from the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft, while using the most modern of settings and characters. Many of the settings for BALAK are very real places in Chicago, which I attempted to capture and cast in a somewhat different light than they--at least probably--appear in real life."