One day Elsie disappears and is replaced by….Elvida. The Bannister’s seven year old daughter Leslie has an imgainery playmate Elsie. Susan is there with boyfriend Ken who doesn’t mind who takes her, including Loftus who she can’t stand.Įstelle uses her ouji board and a message says “I will speak soon.Elvida.” She translates the name as A Devil. Loftus holds bimonthly Rites where he delivers sermons and everyone gets high and takes whatever partner or partners they feel like. He’s a nasty piece of work who may have links to the Manson family and the Satan worshipping Church of High Awareness. Outside of town is a commune with left over hippies who engage in sex orgies with lots of drugs. They include Hank Dixon, a drunk, his wife Estelle who’s into the occult, Hank’s daughter Susan and various townspeople like Dr.Blauvelt and the young priest Daniel Conant. One day Nicole gets an anonymous package. John and Nicole Bannister are part of the group of writers and artists that live in Broadmoor in upstate New York. The book is not a quickie to take advantage of the market for this type of material. There’s some X-rated sex and violence but then again this is about Satan. This is very well written and the characters are drawn out in a story that is absorbing. Don’t be put off because the book is about Satan coming to a small town.
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