Bram Stoker Award Best Novel Winner

Mine

by Robert R. McCammon

Summary

Mary Terrell, a deranged former radical still living in the violent fantasies of the 1960s, snatches a newborn from a hospital and flees across the country convinced the baby is her own. The infant's desperate mother, Laura Clayborne, gives chase in a relentless pursuit that pushes her past exhaustion and fear. McCammon crafts a taut, high speed thriller of maternal obsession that contrasts two mothers driven by very different kinds of love.

Historical Context & Significance

The novel marked a shift for McCammon away from supernatural horror toward grounded psychological suspense.