A Ballantine Book
Published by The Random House Publishing Group
Copyright © 1985 by Anne O’Brien Rice
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Portions of this work originally appeared in The Twilight Zone magazine.
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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 97-93893
eISBN: 978-0-307-57593-7
This edition published by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
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