01250cam a2200253 4500 165918784 TxAuBib 20131218120000.0 131118s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780385516389 038551638X (OCoLC)780031071 TxAuBib Straub, Peter. A Dark Matter / By Peter Straub. 2010 Hardcover Edition. New York, New York : Random House, 2010. 397. Charismatic and cunning, Spencer Mallon was a college campus guru in the 1960s who attracted the undying devotion of his young acolytes. One fateful evening, he invited his most fervent teenage followers to attend a secret ritual in a local meadow. All does not go as planned, and at the end of the evening what remains is a gruesomely dismembered body - and the shattered souls of those who were present. years later, the mind-bending horror of that cataclysmic event still grips the once inseparable group of friends. 20131218. Secret Rituals - Fiction. Horror - Fiction. TXBAY