For fifty years fear of the vanishing red house in the Jersey Barrens had warped the lives of Ellen and Pete Yocum.<P> Old Pete swore that the house moved from place to place and that screams heard within it put a hex on anyone who ventured near.<P> Meg Yarrow, raised by the Yocums since childhood, experienced the same terror until Nathan, the new farmhand, arrived. One day they started on a search for the red house in the Oxhead woods, only to encounter violent danger—whether due to natural or supernatural causes, they could not tell.<P> How they found the house and unraveled its eerie secret forms the powerful climax of this outstanding mystery novel.
