Peter James: Possession (UK 2018)

From the Publisher:
A terrifying novel of a young man who is willing to defy everything. Even death...
Fabian Hightower has been killed in a car crash. At least, that is what a policeman is asking Alex, his mother to believe. But Alex knows she saw him that morning - at a time when he must have been dead.

When the funeral is over Alex tries hard to forget her bizarre experience. But her mind seems to be playing strange tricks on her, turning her grief into horror. When she turns to a medium her worst fears are realised. Fabian has unfinished business and he is determined to come back. But why?

Whatever the answer, something terrifies the medium so much she refuses to return. Alex longs to turn to others for support. But there is a secret about Fabian that only she knows - a secret she must never share...

Peter James: Possession. Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction. Orion, ISBN: 9781409181279 (September, 2018), 304 p., £9.99.

Peter James: Possession (UK 2007)

From the Publisher:
A terrifying novel of a young man who is willing to defy everything. Even death...
Fabian Hightower has been killed in a car crash. At least, that is what a policeman is asking Alex, his mother to believe. But Alex knows she saw him that morning - at a time when he must have been dead.

When the funeral is over Alex tries hard to forget her bizarre experience. But her mind seems to be playing strange tricks on her, turning her grief into horror. When she turns to a medium her worst fears are realised. Fabian has unfinished business and he is determined to come back. But why?

Whatever the answer, something terrifies the medium so much she refuses to return. Alex longs to turn to others for support. But there is a secret about Fabian that only she knows - a secret she must never share...

Peter James: Possession. Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction. Orion, ISBN: 9780752837468 (February, 2007), 304 p., £7.99.

Peter James: Possession (UK 2000)

From the Publisher:
She switched on the machine again and the words stared back at her, calmly, unflickering: HELP ME MOTHER.
Fabian Hightower was killed in a car crash. That's what the police told his mother, Alex. But she couldn't believe them - she'd seen him that morning, in her room. Fabian couldn't be dead.

After the funeral, Alex's imagination keeps playing tricks on her. Haunting her days and tormenting her nights, it turns her grief into terror. In desperation, and against every instinct she has, Alex turns to a medium. Because it isn't her imagination. It's Fabian. And he wants to come back...

Peter James: Possession. Orion, ISBN: 075283746X (February, 2000), 292 p., £6.99.

Peter James: Possession (USA 1989)

From the Publisher:
Alex Hightower was expecting her son home on school vacation. Half asleep, she saw him enter her room. Heard him speak. Then the police appeared at her front door with the shattering news: young Fabian Hightower was dead, killed that morning in a blazing car crash.

Fabian was gone. Or was he? She had seen him, heard him, and now, as the days wore on, she began to feel him... wanting her, reaching out for her - cruel, cunning, demanding. Not the charming child, the handsome young man she knew and adored, but a boy who had lived in the darkest shadows... a creature who had unearthed Alex's blackest secret and done unspeakable evil - again and again and again...

Peter James: Possession. Dell, ISBN: 0440204631 (September, 1989), 305 p., $4.50.

Peter James: Possession (USA 1988)

From the Publisher:
The Exorcist... Rosemary's Baby... The Omen... These classics of supernatural horror have kept countless readers spellbound well into the night, afraid to turn out the bedside lamp. Now, Peter James gives us POSSESSION, a chilling novel sure to join the ranks of those legendary bestsellers. It is a mesmerizing tale about a mother possessed... by her son.

When Alex Hightower's only son Fabian is killed in a car crash, she is devastated, and numbly tries to accept the fact that he is gone forever. But then, strange things start to happen: The words "Help me, Mother," flash across her computer screen; Fabian's face appears on newly developed photographs; odd noises and smells invade her house; objects move by themselves. Frightened -- and desperate -- Alex consults a medium. Shaken, he warns her: Fabian wants to come back. Haunted by his presence at every turn, Alex is consumed by her harrowing search for answers. As she unearths the terrifying secrets of his bizarre past, Alex learns of a Fabian who bears little resemblance to the son she thought she knew. Horrified, she realizes that somehow, while there's still time, she must free herself from Fabian's spirit -- before it takes possession of her own.

Peter James weaves a startling and horrifically convincing story -- based on his own experiences with the supematural -- that holds readers in its grip from first page to last.

Peter James: Possession. Doubleday, ISBN: 0385247052 (November, 1988), 270 p., $17.95.