Description
In the small, isolated town of Lost Haven, the Dulanty family’s children are whispered about as a “plague of demons”—not because they mean harm, but because their bodies and senses don’t behave like ordinary Earth children. As the community’s fear tightens into superstition and persecution, the children’s uncanny abilities—animal-like flicks of the ears, eerie green-eyed fire, and unsettling shapes that seem to shift with the angle of a glance—force everyone to confront what they truly believe about difference, otherness, and the stories they tell to survive. Blending dark humor with speculative wonder, this novel explores identity, faith, and the thin line between myth and reality, asking whether monsters are born—or made by the gaze of others. With R. A. Lafferty’s distinctive, off-kilter voice and imaginative logic, the book turns a seemingly local crisis into a larger meditation on humanity’s need to categorize the unknown.
Available Editions
paperback
Berkley Publishing Group
Published Jan 1, 1968
204 pages
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First Published
1968
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Reefs of Earth by R. A. Lafferty.