Mazes and Monsters
A Novel
Published on 24. February 2015
373 pages
978-1-5040-0844-0 (ISBN)
Description
Part thriller, part love story,
Mazes and Monstersis a spellbinding novel about a group of college students in the 1980s who use a fantasy game as refuge from their personal, emotional, and social problems. Based loosely on the "steam tunnel incidents" of the 1970s, the four friends-Kate, Jay Jay, Daniel, and Robbie-eventually take their game too far when they decide to live-action role-play in the caverns near their college campus. What follows is terrifying and unexpected, as each character dives deep into the darkest part of their mind, those forbidden places where our most menacing truths lie.
More details
Person
Rona Jaffe was the author of sixteen books, including
Class Reunion,
Family Secrets,
The Road Taken, and
The Room-Mating Season. Her 1958 best-selling first novel,
The Best of Everything, was reissued by Penguin in 2005, and
The Other Woman, originally published in 1972, was reissued by HarperCollins in 2015. She founded the Rona Jaffe Foundation in 1994, which presents a national literary award to promising female writers.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Prologue: The Game Spring 1980
- Part One: The Throw of the Dice Fall, the year before
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Part Two: Randomly Encountered Monsters
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Part Three: Raising the Dead
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Part Four: The Maze
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Epilogue: He that is alone Summer 1980
- Copyright Page
