Devil by the Sea

"The first time the children saw the Devil, he was sitting next to them in the second row of deck chairs in the bandstand. He was�biting his nails." So begins the horrifying story of a madman loose in a small seaside town�his prey the very young and the very old. Seen through the eyes of Hilary, a precocious, highly imaginative, and lonely child, it is a chilling story about the perceptiveness of children, the blindness of parents, and the allure of strangers. As the adults carry on with their own grown-up antics, Hilary is led further and further into the twilight world of one man's terrifyingly distorted view of normal life. But will she have the sense to resist it?