Abandon

A senior at Harvard descends slowly into madness... or does he? Withdrawing to his quiet fourth-floor room of Adams House to write a Hamlet thesis, he is swept into his own battle with ghosts of betrayal and deceit.

Harbouring guilt over the suicide of his roommate Billy two years previously, he is convinced that Billy knew he was having an affair with his girlfriend. Guilt spills over to paranoia with the arrival of a mysterious dandy claiming to be a fellow student.

Winner of the 2001 International Horror Guild Award for Best First Novel.