Tiger Rag

by Kit Reed

Still on her knees, she became aware of the presence of evil, as palpable as a waking tiger, it uncurled and rose to stalk around the house, snuffling at the cracks and staring with bright, yellow eyes at every window, trying to find its way in...

It was only when she read about Richard Thrall's murder that it began - the slow, terrifying journey into that special world of the past where she was suddenly a prisoner of her childhood.

It was then that everything came smashing back into her life, blurring the realities of her husband and son. There were things about the past she never understood. And somehow Richard Thrall's murder was part of it all. Now she must find out the truth - or surrender to her madness...

Genres: Horror

270 pages, Paperback

First published September 28, 1973

About the author

Kit Reed was an American author of both speculative fiction and literary fiction, as well as psychological thrillers under the pseudonym Kit Craig.

Her 2013 "best-of" collection, The Story Until Now, A Great Big Book of Stories was a 2013 Shirley Jackson Award nominee. A Guggenheim fellow, she was the first American recipient of an international literary grant from the Abraham Woursell Foundation. She's had stories in, among others, The Yale Review, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Omni and The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Literature. Her books Weird Women, Wired Women and Little Sisters of the Apocalypse were finalists for the Tiptree Prize. A member of the board of the Authors League Fund, she served as Resident Writer at Wesleyan University.