About

Ken Greenhall (1928-2014) was born in Detroit, the son of immigrants from England. He graduated from high school at age 15, worked at a record store for a time, and was drafted into the military, serving in Germany. E earned his degree from Wayne State University and moved to New York, where he worked as an editor of reference books. Greenhall had a longtime interest in the supernatural and took leave from his job to write his first novel, Elizabeth (1976), a tale of witchcraft published under his mother’s maiden name, Jessica Hamilton.

Ken Greenhall (1928-2014) was born in Detroit, the son of immigrants from England. He graduated from high school at age 15, worked at a record store for a time, and was drafted into the military, serving in Germany. He earned his degree from Wayne State University and moved to New York, where he worked as an editor of reference books.

Elizabeth Cuttner is no ordinary fourteen-year-old She speaks with a candor that belies her age and possesses the perceptive nature of a fortuneteller erhaps it's the result of having to grow up too fast.

Her whiskey-soaked stockbroker father can't pry his eyes off Elizabeth's friend and her mother is too caught up insulting her father to care about Elizabeth ut for all Elizabeth's intuition, even she can't control the influence imposed on her by Frances, the mysterious woman in the mirror While on a trip with her parents to Lake George, New York, Elizabeth meets this spectral presence for the first time.

T's with a captured toad in hand and a darting look to her bedroom mirror that invokes the eerie apparition As if she's her guardian angel, Frances swears allegiance to Elizabeth, protecting her and having her best interest at heart However, each look to the mirror comes with a high cost.

Whether by Elizabeth's hand or another, she's left an orphan and forced to move into her grandmother's house where her uncle, James, also resides e's married, has a son, and shares the same salacious side of her father And Elizabeth, despite her age and relation, is the target of his infatuation t the same time, Frances's hold on Elizabeth gains strength, pulling her further from reality with each visit But it may just be the kind of escape from this debauched life that Elizabeth requires r it could be a destiny pre-ordained by her heritage, bringing her closer to the truth interred among her ancestors At first glance, Elizabeth appears to hold all the trappings of 70s pulp horror with its sleezy characters and shaggy veneer ut it's a novel of scrupulous nuance that resists horror's clichés, cloaking itself in the darkest velour that horror has to offer With lust, obsession, manipulation, and a young girl as its focus, this novel is sure to make you feel uneasy, if even a bit queasy nd by the time you're done, you may just think twice before you look into another mirror again.

Edition Details

• Limited to 300 signed copies.
• New introduction by Grady Hendrix.
• Signed by Bo Myles and Grady Hendrix.
• Dustjacket, frontispiece, and spot illustrations by Bo Myles.
• Patterened endpapers.
• Ribbon marker, head and tail bands, bound in Brillianta black cloth.
• Stamped spine and front board.
• Smyth-sewn binding.
• Book size 5¼ × 8¼ inches.
• Number of pages: 352.

External Links

• Elizabeth. Centipede Press page for Elizabeth
• Ken Greenhall (ISFDB). ISFDB entry for Ken Greenhall