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Title	:	The Sentinel
Author	:	Jeffrey Konvitz
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 278 pages
Published	:	January 12th 1977 by Ballantine Books (first published 1974)
Categories	:	Horror. Fiction. Fantasy. Paranormal. Mystery. Thriller

The Sentinel

Jeffrey Konvitz

Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 278 pages

Rating: 3.86 | 6770 Users | 184 Reviews

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A beautiful young model. The old brownstone apartment she simply had to have. The grotesque blind priest who watched down on her day and night from an upper-story window. The pair of perverted creatures who wanted her to join their circle. The mad little old man who gave her tea and sympathy. The cool, calculating, supremely rational lover who first mocked her fears.

And the secret you will never be able to forget, even if you try...

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Original Title:	The Sentinel
ISBN:	0345304373 (ISBN13: 9780345304377)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Allison Parker

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For the most part I was pleased with this little gem I found in a thrift store. The copy was printed in 1976 and was old and creepy looking. After trying a couple of horrors that disappointed me, I picked it up expecting literally nothing only to find that it read not dissimilar to Rosemarys Baby. It was the kind of writing that I adore in an old school horror, exceptionally creepy while also being really subtle. It read like a scary 80s film and I proceeded to stay up in the dark reading this

I'm pretty nostalgic about '70s Satan horror, both books and movies, and this book really fit the feeling. I'm an atheist myself, and what I find enjoyable about the religious horror of that era is that it has that kind of "Tales from the Dark Side" melting reality to reveal a supernatural underside, and to me it's the same feeling whether it's a Christian demonology underneath or some mythical magical stuff. In this case, I think the book is based more on Paradise Lost than the Bible.I like the

Black and white cat! Black and white cake!

I enjoy scary books, but add Satan and a priest and I can't put them down. Catholic thing, I'm sure. For fans of Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby, the Sentinel borrows obviously and heavily. Both books are set in New York City, and both begin with a pretty young catholic girl hunting for the perfect apartment in an old brownstone. Rosemary's new husband is an overly-ambitious actor, and Allison's long-time boyfriend is an overly ambitious lawyer. You almost want to shout at Allison: "Be careful!

Hi All! So, the way I discovered, The Sentinel, was through Jeff Konvitz himself. We met, went out, enjoyed each others company. Then he told me about the book. I love a good horror read! So he gave me a copy and I read it. An easy read for a scary weekend... it was fun. Then I read The Guardian, which I enjoyed even more... the interesting thing is! I found the treatment for the third one!! We've been married for 14 years and I found it on the back shelf recently. Also, I found another

Its not that difficult to go astray with horror. Theres such a fine line between it and parody, an author must make sure that he doesnt cross it. One way to cross that line is to people your story with caricatures. Like a cigar-chopping cop who wears a fedora. Or giving the heroine a lover who you cant imagine why shes with him. Of course, lots of her actions are totally inexplicable. But then, so is she as a character. To the point where I didnt really care what happened to her. Or anyone else,

Oh man, the 70s. Such an awful decade, full of such awful self-indulgence. "The Sentinel" is another "the devil in New York" story like "Rosemary's Baby", full of shallow people living hedonistic lives suddenly finding out that the world is a lot deeper than they ever imagined....Allison Parker is a pretty young model dating a successful criminal defense attorney. All she wants is to get her own apartment and be her own person for a while. She finds a place she likes a lot, although her bunch of