Nightmare

In the remote Flint Hills of Kansas, at a clinic for women with multiple personalities, the patients are killing themselves on e by one, at the direction of their alternate personas. The local police and clinic staff are at a loss to explain the sudden outbreak of apparent suicides. But a journalist, on hand to research a book on the treatment of multiples, uncovers a bizarre blood ritual conducted by the chief doctor's voyeuristic wife, and sets out to prove that she is behind the murderous frenzy, even as it threatens to engulf him.

In the author's hallmark Kansas-Gothic style, Epperson weaves a web of palpable fear and nightmarish intensity that holds the reader in its clutches right up to the terrifying and macabre climax.