nThis disorienting, creepy, paranoia-inducing reimagining of the devil-made-me-do-it tale (Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World) follows the harrowing downfall of a tortured graduate student arrested for murder. nGrayson Hale, the most infamous murderer in Scotland, is better known by a different name: the Devils Advocate. The twenty-five-year-old American grad student rose to instant notoriety when he confessed to the slaughter of his classmate Liam Stewart, claiming the Devil made him do it. n nWhen Hale is found hanged in his prison cell, officers uncover a handwritten manuscript that promises to answer the question thats haunted the nation for years: was Hale a lunatic, or had he been telling the truth all along? n nThe first-person narrative reveals an acerbic young atheist, newly enrolled at the University of Edinburgh to carry on the legacy of his recently deceased father. In need of cash, he takes a job ghostwriting a mysterious book for a dark stranger--but he has misgivings when the project begins to reawaken his satanophobia, a rare condition that causes him to live in terror that the Devil is after him. As he struggles to disentangle fact from fear, Graysons world is turned upside-down after events force him to confront his growing suspicion that hes working for the one he has feared all this time--and that the book is only the beginning of their partnership. n nA modern-day Gothic tale with claws (Jennifer Fawcett, author of Beneath the Stairs), A History of Fear marries dread-inducing atmosphere with heart-palpitating storytelling.n