About

Hallahan is an American writer, best known for his two occult novels, The Search for Joseph Tully and The Keeper of the Children.

Have you ever felt the icy, cold touch of death brush the nape of your neck, as if a specter follows your every move in waking life and the dream world? If not, you should breathe a sigh of relief and count yourself lucky ete Richardson hasn't been afforded that kind of fortune.

For him, the mundane merry-go-round ? of daily life is filled with the kind of paranoia that one would experience in the aftermath of immense tragedy he question is: what tragedy would prompt such fear? Even he can't answer that.

N the surface, he's just a regular “joe” working a menial office job He enjoys his morning coffee, an occasional snifter of brandy, and fraternizes with fellow neighbors on the impending demolition of their Brooklyn apartment building e even has a front row seat to the wrecking ball outside his window.

Sounds normal enough espite his skepticism, he follows the advice from friends and neighbors and searches for answers in places he doubts the most: horoscopes, Tarot readings, seances, and hypnosis But he comes as close to discovering the truth as he does to hysteria ll the while, an attorney from London, named Matthew Willow, makes landfall on U. S. soil and bounces from town to town, hot on the trail of the Tully family whose lineage dates back to the 1700s His investigation drags him from New York to New Jersey and back, covering the ground like an archaeologist on the hunt for the holy grail ut what's his grail and how does Richardson factor into it? Considered a classic of the horror genre, The Search for Joseph Tully is a clever and engrossing tale told by a master craftsman who wrings every ounce of suspense from its pages allahan is the Hitchcock of macabre prose, constructing an elaborate puzzle that uses the guise of genealogy to tell a story so chilling that you'll question the very nature of time and space It's a story riddled with religious overtones, repressed memories, paganistic delight and even a little bit of the Latin language hey're motifs that harken back to a time when monks and priests followed doctrines so strict that any maleficence would be deemed heresy That is the time of Tully, an enigma wrapped in 18th century robes, and a character hidden from view but lurking in plain sight s you'll soon find out, revenge really is a dish best served ice-cold allahan (1925-2018) was an American author, raised in Brooklyn He served three years in the United States Navy, then attended Temple University in Philadelphia where he obtained degrees in journalism and English his edition of The Search for Joseph Tully includes a new introduction by Michael Saler, photographs and old book covers, an afterword by William H Hallahan, and a bonus short story, “The New Tenant.”.

Edition Details

• Limited to 400 signed copies.
• Includes a new introduction and bonus stories and essays.
• Signed by Michael Saler and David Ho, with a facsimile signature by William H. Hallahan.
• Dustjacket, endpaper, frontispiece, and interior illustrations by David Ho.
• Illustrated endpapers.
• Top-edge stain.
• Ribbon marker, head and tail bands, bound in Brillianta black cloth.
• Full dustjacket illustration pasted down on front board.
• Smyth-sewn binding.
• Book size 5¼ × 8¾ inches.
• Number of pages: 312.

External Links

• The Search for Joseph Tully (Second Edition). Centipede Press page for The Search for Joseph Tully (Second Edition)
• William H. Hallahan (ISFDB). ISFDB entry for William H. Hallahan