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Pendergast, the world's most mysterious FBI Special Agent, investigates a murderous cult in New York City that no one has ever survived. William Smithback, a New York Times reporter, and his wife Nora Kelly, a Museum of Natural History archaeologist, are brutally attacked in their apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Eyewitnesses claim, and the security camera confirms, that the assailant was their strange, sinister neighbor--a man who, by all reports, was already dead and buried weeks earlier. While Captain Laura Hayward leads the official investigation, Pendergast and Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta undertake their own private--and decidedly unorthodox--quest for the truth. Their serpentine journey takes them to an enclave of Manhattan they never imagined could exist: a secretive, reclusive cult of Obeah and vodou which no outsiders have ever survived.

Amici fin dall'infanzia, Henry, Jonesy, Beav e Pete hanno preso da adulti strade diverse, però non rinunciano al loro appuntamento annuale nel Maine, là nella baita dove ondeggia quel curioso oggetto indiano chiamato acchiappasogni. Ma stavolta li aspetta una brutta avventura: il cielo preannuncia una tempesta di neve e nel folto si aggira qualcuno (o qualcosa) che amerebbe tanto abitare sulla Terra. E quando si scatena la bufera... L'orrore è davvero senza nome? O esiste nel momento in cui noi gliene diamo uno?

When a man is found murdered on the doorstep of a respectable house in Bedford Square, Victorian England's finest and most controversial policeman, Thomas Pitt, is called immediately to the scene. The only clue to the victim's identity is a silver snuff box found on the body, curiously at odds with the man's dishevelled appearance. Pitt soon discovers that the box, and the house where the body was found, belong to General Balantyne, a man Pitt knows to be a pillar of the community. He is dismayed to learn that Balantyne can barely recall the evening, let alone account for his movements.