The Sentinel
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Jeffrey Konvitz’s New York Times–bestselling horror novel about a young woman descending into demonic madness who discovers it’s not simply in her mind Aspiring model Allison Parker finally moves into her dream apartment: a brownstone on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. But her perfect home quickly turns hellish. The building is filled with a cast of sinister tenants, including a reclusive blind priest, who seems to watch her day and night through an upstairs window. Eventually, Allison starts hearing strange noises from the empty apartment above hers. Before long, she uncovers the building’s demonic secret and is plunged into a nightmare of sinful misdeeds and boundless evil. In the tradition of Rosemary’s Baby, this gripping novel was adapted into a feature film starring Ava Gardner, Cristina Raines, and Chris Sarandon. The Sentinel is classic horror at its best.
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This book was so good. The first scary book I've read in years, although more suspenseful than anything. I'd categorize it to The Sixth Sense type of horror.
The story is about Allison, who has dealt with attempted suicides in the past due to abuse from her father and some personal choices she's made. She moves into an apartment and becomes friends with an old man named Mr. Chazen who's best friends are a parakeet and a cat. She's also neighbors with an old blind priest who seems to never come out of his apartment. As the story commences, ominous things happen to Allison and people aren't who they seem. Her boyfriend Michael try's to help her uncover the mysteries of what's going on while a detective Gatz is uncovering clues of Michael's past to show that he may not be the good guy he seems to be. What will become of Allison's eternal fate?
