First published in 1991, this is the story of New York City. Friday night. Untouched by anything visible, Mrs Greenberg’s furniture starts to slide across the room – and however hard she tries, she can’t move it back.
Harry Erskine, self-taught fortune teller, agrees to investigate – but soon realises that Mrs Greenberg’s moving furniture is just the beginning of a nightmare, for it is being drawn by the same inexorable force which drags us all to the grave.
City by city, America is on the brink of falling into the abyss – women and children, streets and buildings – one and all brought thundering and screaming into the dominion of the dead…