History Literature / ComesTheBlindFury

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* AmbiguouslyBrown: It's strongly hinted that Michelle might not be white, and that she's possibly Asian, but this is never confirmed. The only reason it seems to come up is to make clear that she looks markedly different from her fair-skinned, blond, blue-eyed parents, in order to make it instantly obvious that she's adopted.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: A child is killed with a swing set--and not in any way you might be envisioning right now.
* [[spoiler: CruelTwistEnding]] So, so much.

* MilkyWhiteEyes: Amanda. Makes for quite a creepy book cover.
* NosyNeighbor: Constance Benson, who barges right into June's art studio on the very first day the family moves in and does not improve for the rest of the book.

* HereWeGoAgain: In the epilogue, baby Jennifer, now ten years old, [[spoiler: discovers the doll Amanda (which June destroyed after Michelle's death) and decides to name it after her late sister Michelle. June realizes that Amanda--or possibly Michelle--will again use the doll to destroy Jennifer...and there's nothing she can do to stop it.]]
* HappilyAdopted: Michelle was adopted as a baby. Her parents have always been open with her about the fact and it's never been an issue...until they move to Paradise Point.

* AdultFear: Cal and June, as well as Corinne, have quite a few of these.

''Comes the Blind Fury'' is an extremely creepy 1980 novel by Creator/JohnSaul.

''Comes the Blind Fury'' is an extremely creepy 1980 book by Creator/JohnSaul.

Things take a turn for the worse when Michelle falls over the edge of a cliff and injures her hip. Her new bitterness coupled with her disability cause the other children in town to taunt her, leaving her friendless. Her parents seem to abandon her in favor of their newborn daughter. Now she has no one but her doll Amanda.

But there's another friend, one who only comes on misty nights. One only Michelle can see. Her name is Amanda, too, and she wants to look through Michelle's eyes to see everything she's missed throughout the past one hundred years. And in exchange, Amanda will punish anyone who makes Michelle unhappy.

Soon the town children begin dying, one by one, in grisly accidents. Soon it seems there's no one to blame but Michelle, who is always at the scene of each death. Soon Michelle will have to run.

In the present day, Dr. Cal Pendleton, his pregnant wife June, and their adopted twelve-year-old daughter Michelle come to Paradise Point, where they live in a BigFancyHouse overlooking the sea. But [[NewHouseNewProblems strange things have occurred]] ever since they arrive, such as the disgusting stain in June's art studio that can't be scrubbed away, or the mysterious, disturbing paintings that appear on her blank canvases each night, or [[CreepyDoll the antique doll]] that Michelle finds in the attic.

In the present day, Dr. Cal Pendleton, his pregnant wife June, and their adopted twelve-year-old daughter Michelle come to Paradise Point, where they live in a BigFancyHouse overlooking the sea. But [[NewHouseNewProblems strange things have occured]] ever since they arrive, such as the disgusting stain in June's art studio that can't be scrubbed away, or the mysterious, disturbing paintings that appear on her blank canvases each night, or [[CreepyDoll the antique doll]] that Michelle finds in the attic.

* MilkyWhiteEyes: Both Amandas--makes for quite a creepy book cover.

* TheUnfavorite: What Michelle's schoolmates tell her she will become with the new child.

''Comes the Blind Fury'' is an extremely creepy 1980 book by Creator/JohnSaul. It takes place in the charming small town of Paradise Point, where, a long time ago, a blind girl being taunted by her schoolmates took a fatal tumble off a cliff into the sea.

Now, many years later, Dr. Cal Pendleton, his pregnant wife June, and their adopted twelve year old daughter Michelle move to the town, hoping to get away from Boston. Cal takes over an aging friend's practice and the family also moves into the house the old man previously inhabited, complete with furniture, a strange stain in the gardener's shed, and a doll Michelle becomes quite attached to. Everything seems well...until Michelle falls off a cliff running from her teasing peers. She survives, but is permanently crippled and holes up in her own world more and more often, speaking only to "Amanda" (her doll, and, as it happens, the name of the blind girl who fell off the cliff).

Cal, already shattered because of a boy who died on his operating table due to a misdiagnosis, begins spending less and less time with Michelle and more time with his new child. Then local schoolchildren begin dying in a string of accidents...and Michelle was the only one at the scene every time...

''Comes the Blind Fury'' is an extremely creepy 1980 book by Creator/JohnSaul. It takes place in the charming small town of Paradise Point, where, a long time ago, a blind girl being taunted by her schoolmates took a fatal tumble off a cliff into the sea. Now, many years later, Dr. Cal Pendleton, his pregnant wife June, and their adopted twelve year old daughter Michelle move to the town, hoping to get away from Boston. Cal takes over an aging friend's practice and the family also moves into the house the old man previously inhabited, complete with furniture, a strange stain in the gardener's shed, and a doll Michelle becomes quite attached to. Everything seems well...until Michelle falls off a cliff running from her teasing peers. She survives, but is permanently crippled and holes up in her own world more and more often, speaking only to "Amanda" (her doll, and, as it happens, the name of the blind girl who fell off the cliff). Cal, already shattered because of a boy who died on his operating table due to a misdiagnosis, begins spending less and less time with Michelle and more time with his new child. Then local schoolchildren begin dying in a string of accidents...and Michelle was the only one at the scene every time...