Smoke

by Ruby Jean Jensen

Book Overview

Seven-year old Ellen bought a very intriguing old lamp at a garage sale in Los Angeles. Although her older brother Joey and sister Beth mocked her, she started calling it her "Aladdin's Lamp". While... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821722557
• ISBN13: 9780821722558
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Zebra Books
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Does Aladdin's lamp really exist?

In this story it does! This story is about two children who find an old lamp at a garage sale, and actually beilieve that there is a genie inside of it. It's a really cute how the children really believe it could happen. This story could've been written by a child, because somehow the kids manage to convince their step mom that the murders have something to do with the lamp. The killer follows the main characters in the story, state to state address to address. It's creepy, and it' kinda of like a mystery, yet it's scary. It just amazes me how Ruby can take ordianary objects like say, a jump rope, and make it scary somehow. I have to say this is prob. one of my favorite Ruby Jensens 'cause it basically takes place in Ft. Smith Arkansas where my mother is from. The plot is simple once again, but still it is a good story.

Where there's Smoke there's terror!

Jensen once again has produces another quietly chilling tale of the supernatural in this shocker, Ellen a seven year old girl unwilling unleases a ancient evil in the guise of genie! This creature which appears as smoke commits a series of gruesome murders that follows Ellen and her brother Joey and older sister Beth from L.A. to Dallas.Jensen is one of the few horror authorswho can bring back the fears of childhood and paint them in a sinister new light.The fears of the dark, monsters and other terrors of our youth she can resurrect to gives us chills.This novel has scenes of terror as this creature murders women in truly horrible fashion and the sense of menace is so palpable you can almost feel it and it leads to a surprising but still creepy climax!