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Thomas Cullinan (1919-1995) was an American novelist and playwright, as well as a writer for television. He is perhaps best known for his 1966 novel The Beguiled (1966), about a Union soldier recuperating at a girls' school in Confederate Mississippi during the Civil War. It was made into two films of the same name, in 1971 and again in 2017. He wrote three other novels: The Besieged (1970), The Eighth Sacrament (1977), and The Bedeviled (1978).

Thomas Cullinan (1919-1995) was an American novelist and playwright, as well as a writer for television. It was made into two films of the same name, in 1971 and again in 2017. He is perhaps best known for his 1966 novel The Beguiled (1966), about a Union soldier recuperating at a girls' school in Confederate Mississippi during the Civil War.

Jack Caine's heart attack was all the advice he needed He and Maggie and the children were moving as far as possible from the rat race that was slowly killing him, leaving New York to a quiet old farmhouse in Ohio, which Jack has inherited from a distant aunt he house, ten miles away from the nearest neighbor, was once owned by a Civil War general reputed to have been a Satanist.

From their first night in the desolate old house, when the screams of Jack's teenage son, Duff, split the dark silence, the Caines sense the hellish curse descending upon them hen his family burial ground is mysteriously vandalized, Jack cannot bring his tortured thoughts to bear on who might have done it, and why, until a strangely transformed Duff appears before him, possessed of the corrupt and lascivious spirit of his great-great-grandfather Brigadier General Duffin Caine And Maggie, now possessed by the General's long-dead mistress, is the sole object of his perverse desire.

This is a marvelously sinister brew of Satanism, possession, and incest, here reprinted in a special limited edition hardcover The book has new artwork by Christopher Shy and a new introduction by Thomas W ullinan, the author's son, with rare photographs There are 300 signed copies available, each signed by Shy and Cullinan he book is bound in cloth, with two color foil blocking on the front cover, a handsome color dustjacket, color and black & white interior illustrations, and ribbon marker.

Edition Details

• Limited to 300 copies, each signed by artist Christopher Shy and introducer Thomas W. Cullinan.
• Facsimile signature by Thomas Cullinan.
• Rare photographs of the author.
• Reproductions of old editions.
• Ribbon marker, head and tail bands, Smyth-sewn binding.

External Links

• The Bedeviled. Centipede Press page for The Bedeviled
• Thomas Cullinan (ISFDB). ISFDB entry for Thomas Cullinan