6 oz.; 215 pages; PB some reading/shelf wear spine lean aged good clean/tight used condition 1st St. Martin's Paperback Printing. In an ancient Transylvanian ritual of blood, fire and steel, she died to create a creature of vengeance-First the creature was a mindless slump of semi-fluid flesh resting under the floorboards in the dingy London rooming house. Impelled by its overwhelming need to eat, to grow, it fed on beetles, silverfish, then rats-each time changing, taking the form of its victims. Then it heard the baby's sickly wail…