Fear (novel)

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Title Fear
Author L. Ron Hubbard
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Horror novel & Novella
Publisher Unknown Fantasy Fiction
Released July 1940
Media type Print (Pulp & Paperback)
ISBN NA

Fear is a horror novel by L. Ron Hubbard. It was first published in July 1940 in the magazine Unknown Fantasy Fiction as a novella.

[edit] Plot introduction

Fear tells the story of university professor James Lowry, a disbeliever in spirits or witches, or demons, so much so that he publishes an article in a newspaper denying the existence of such things, he is warned of the possible repercussions by his friend Tommy Williams. That same spring evening his hat disappears and suddenly he couldn't remember the last four hours of his life. Lowry is pursued by a dark secret evil that is turning his whole world against him while it whispers a warning from the shadows: "...if you find your hat you'll find your four hours. If you find your four hours then you will die..."

[edit] Plot summary

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Throughout the novel, Lowry is suspicious that Tommy may be having an affair with his wife, Mary, even in his dreams of demons. At the end Lowry with the local police officer find Lowry's hat, at Tommy's house. The reader finds out that Lowry had murdered Tommy and Mary in his lost four hours.