Mirror by Graham Masterton
It is said that a mirror can trap a person's soul....
The mirror had once hung in the bedroom of a child movie star--had hung there,
gleaming, the night the eight-year-old boy was hacked to bits by his loving
grandmother. After the funeral, the glass spent fifty years in a dusty
basement, waiting for rescue.
Now it hangs, almost glowing, in the apartment of Martin Williams, two-bit
Hollywood scriptwriter and dedicated fan of the murdered child, Boofuls.
Acquiring the mirror is the culmination of Martin's life-long dream--and the
beginning of true nightmare!
The horror begins with a child's toy--a blue-and-white striped rubber ball that
rolls quietly across the floor--but only in the room reflected in the mirror.
In the real world, it is a tennis ball--until somehow the toys change places,
and the real becomes the reflection.
A cat paws the mirror's cold glass surface--and is sucked through. What emerges
on this side is a looking-glass cat--a bloodthirsty demon more snake than
feline.
The looking-glass world is filled with pain, terror, and torment. And Boofuls,
that beautiful child with the angel's face and voice, has been trapped there
for fifty years, his soul captured by the mirror at the moment of his death.
Martin Williams will do anything to free the boy, even sacrifice another child
to the hell beyond the silvered glass. But fifty years in Hell have turned the
angel into a devil. Boofuls intends to permanently open the mirror--passage, to
bring Satan to dominion over the Earth. Hollywood will be the first bloody
offering--but not the last!
As the terror mounts, as demons creep from the mirror-world into the real one,
Martin realizes that to stop the devil-child he will have to step through the
mirror, to find the innocent soul he condemned to Hell. In that child's
forgiveness lies Satan's defeat.
Martin William's search for innocence in Hell is a harrowing journey that will
chill the reader long after the last page has been turned.
Marilyn
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