The Auctioneer

Joan Samson

Introduction by Ed Gorman

Harrowing tensions explode in a series of events that could happen anywhere, to anyone, just as they do to John Moore - whose days of freedom run out, who is stripped of his possessions, his courage, and his hopes, by the ominous presence of a stranger impossible to resist.

Published to wide acclaim in 1975, The Auctioneer is a minor classic of American literature, now almost completely forgotten. The story of John Moore, his wife Mim, and his mother, is a gripping tale of greed in a small town, which is quietly overrun by auctioneer Bob Gore. Acclaimed by Stephen King and Robert R. McCammon and an influence on King's own Needful Things, The Auctioneer is here reprinted for the first time in 30 years.

"A well-made piece of dynamite... For all their talk, the author seems to be saying, men will permit their souls to be carried away bit by bit and auctioned off to the highest bidder. Samson has written a suspenseful, engrossing novel with the most gripping and violent ending we've encountered in some time."
-- Newsday

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