Spine cocked from being read, with crease marks along its front edge. Cover rubbed, with several small creases. Pages lightly tanned. Otherwise sturdy and solid. First published in 1952. At first Dick refuses to worry about the strange change that has come over his pregnant wife. Miranda - once a happy woman - has become jealous and spiteful. Dick tries to tell himself that it is only her condition. But when Miranda loses the baby during a mysterious spasm, the change in her personality - and even her looks - is horrifying. For Miranda has assumed the looks and personality of Duck's first wife, an evil, unfaithful woman who drowned several years before - a woman Miranda never met nor even knew existed! As the change in Miranda becomes complete, Dick is forced to believe the only explanation possible - Miranda's body and soul have been possessed by the spirit of his dead wife.

Occult Horror Fiction