New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. First edition - Award-winning author's third novel, set in a small town in Maine and narrated by Cora Whitman. "She's a minister's wife, gardener, food writer, and just the kind of narrator that you don't find in most horror novels. She is practical, skeptical, and her matter-of-fact telling of the events that took place in Dry Falls, Maine, makes this incredible story easy to believe. Incubus begins with Cora Whitman's preface to the 'case study' that is the novel. It's an almost scientific warm-up for the paranormal roller coaster that lies ahead. Dry Falls is a typical, small New England community, except during the summer of 1974 when the weather got unusually hot, the rain refused to fall, and the town was gripped by a sinister sexual spirit." 322 pp.