Welcome to the haunted world of Johnny Dove, the main character of The Possessed, a novel of extreme horror and terror, a novel that captures all the fear and angst of the post-911 malaise. Johnny Dove was once a successful writer whoas gone cold with writeras block. In order to salvage his life, he must turn out another bestseller. So what is this writer who has been forsaken by friends, wife, family, literary agent, publisher and the reading public to do? Turn to drink? Commit suicide? Enter Mr. Van Brunt, an antique dealer of a shabby little store on Atlantic Avenue. He has the solution. Itas a haunted antique pen. Johnny buys it without knowing the full extent of its evil powers. But perhaps there is something to this antique pen. Perhaps it is enchanted, or better, perhaps it truly is a haunted pen. To Johnnyas mind that can only mean one thingaanother bestseller
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