The Auctioneer - Joan Samson
Category: Novel
Narrator: Matt Godfrey
Tags: Novel, Horror, Adults
One of the finest and best-selling horror novels of the 1970s returns at last to chill a new generation., In the isolated farming community of Harlowe, New Hampshire, where life has changed little over the past several decades, John Moore and his wife, Mim, work the land that has been in his family for generations. But from the moment the charismatic Perly Dinsmore arrives in town and starts soliciting donations for his auctions, things begin slowly and insidiously to change in Harlowe. As the auctioneer carries out his terrible, inscrutable plan, the Moores and their neighbors will find themselves gradually but inexorably stripped of their freedom, their possessions, and perhaps even their lives., A chilling masterpiece of terror whose sense of creeping menace and dread increases throughout, Joan Samsons The Auctioneer (1975) is a rediscovered classic of 20th-century fiction. With echoes of Shirley Jacksons The Lottery and Stephen Kings Needful Things, Samsons novel returns at last in
