![]() ![]() ![]() The eerie atmosphere intensifies when Peggy claims to have seen Michael in the playground at school, bringing the specter of Helen’s dead nephew threateningly close. The early chapters tap into the supernatural dread of a disembodied voice on the line, a crackling connection filled with recriminations against Helen. The telephone calls reawaken Helen’s grief over his death, and the remorse in her own role in committing her sister. Michael died under Helen’s care, after she took charge of him and his older brother, Craig, following the death of her sister in a mental institution. The boy on the phone pleads with Helen for help, resurrecting the family’s tragic history and reopening the barely-healed wounds of her own personal guilt. The caller, a boy about ten years old, claims to be Helen’s deceased nephew, Michael, who tragically froze to death sixteen years previously after running away from home during a blizzard. ![]() Helen Connelly is plagued by a series of unsettling phone calls, which threaten to tear apart the quiet small-town life she shares with her young daughter, Peggy. ![]() John Farris | Pocket Books | 1975 (first published 1967) | 249 pages ![]()
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