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Superstitious

  • 1995 first published
  • 388 pages
  • ★ 3.0 (3 ratings)
  • 4 editions

Superstitious is a 1995 horror novel by Robert Lawrence Stine. Much of the action takes place in Pennsylvania. Readers will find themes of serial murders, Superstition and Psychological.

Open Library readers give it an average of 3.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, and 78 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 4 editions.

It runs to roughly 388 pages — 7–8 hours of reading at an average pace.

About Superstitious

On the small Pennsylvania college campus Liam O'Connor cuts a dashing, romantic figure. The Irish-born professor of folklore has good looks, a sweet charm, and a host of Old World superstitions - all of which dazzle beautiful graduate student Sara Morgan. Plunging headlong into a sudden love affair, Sara barely has time to notice the dark drama unfolding on the campus. Four murders have been committed, each more gruesomely horrifying than the one before it, each committed by someone, or something, with terrible fury and strength. Suddenly Sara is receiving crank phone calls, warning her to stay away from Liam ... fearing her ex-boyfriend Chip's next angry outburst ... wondering why Liam's unmarried sister, Margaret, is so suffocatingly close to them ... and trying to escape the lecherous stares of her boss, Milton Cohn, the dean of students and the owner of a murderous-looking knife collection. When Liam proposes marriage, Sara accepts, making love by the light of sixteen candles, one of Liam's superstitions. Somehow, that final step seals her fate. The police begin to close in on a killer, the death toll mounts, and Sara is caught in an ever-tightening web. At its center, behind the most innocent superstitions, waits the greatest terror of all...
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Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Setting

Subjects

  • Detective and mystery stories
  • Serial murders
  • Pennsylvania in fiction
  • Superstition
  • Superstition in fiction
  • Serial murders in fiction
  • Horror tales
  • Mystery & detective
  • Psychological
  • Morgan, sara
  • Pennsylvania

Quick answers

Who wrote Superstitious?

Superstitious was written by Robert Lawrence Stine and first published in 1995.

What genre is Superstitious?

It is usually shelved as Horror.

How long is Superstitious?

The median edition has 388 pages, about 7–8 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Superstitious?

Readers who like it often enjoy From a Buick 8, Wieland and Ghost Road Blues.

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