figurines & knick knacks
if there be thorns
chris and cathy made such a loving home for fourteen year old jory so handsome so gentle . and for bart who had such a dazzling imagination for a nine year old . br then the lights came on in the house next door . soon the old lady in black was there watching them guarded by her strange old butler . soon she had bart over for cookies and ice cream and asked him to call her grandmother . br and soon barts transformation began ... br fed by the hint of terrible things about his mother and father ... leading him into shocking acts of violence . br now while this little boy trembles on the edge of madness his anguished parents await the climax to a horror that flowered in an attic long ago a horror whose thorns are still wet with blood still tipped with fire .
an old woman in the house next door and her sinister butler give chris and cathys youngest son bart a mysterious book that drives him to the brink of madness