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TITLE: THE GATEKEEPER TRILOGY Book One: Out of the Madhouse
AUTHOR: Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder
ISBN: 0-671-02434-5
FIRST PUBLISHED: January 1999
KNOCKIN' ON EVIL'S DOOR
Werewolves. Trolls. Seas Monsters. Rain of toads. Skyquakes. Sunnydale is being besieged by dark forces. But even with Buffy providing her unique style of damage control while Giles is hospitalized out of town, it's more than on Slayer can handle -especially since the abominations are coming from a centuries-old portal through time and space.
Somehow, the hell-hole must be found and corked at its source. For Buffy, Angel, and the rest of her gang, that means a road trip to Boston where an ailing Gatekeeper resides over a supernatural mansion that has been, until recently, holding the world's worst monsters at bay. Once there, Buffy discovers the catastrophic truth: the magical structure houses thousands of rooms, all of which are doorways to limbo's "ghost roads," and all of which may bring her face-to-face with the most nefarious forces in hell and on earth -forces bent on horrific plans far worse than the Slayer ever imagined.
"I feel it," Buffy whispered.
She pointed through the windshield.
Giles stopped the car. Behind the gates, framed by thick privet hedges, rose a monstrous and yet somehow beautiful piece of architecture unlike anything Giles had ever seen. A row of windows across the top floor of the house looked like nothing so much as eyes, staring madly down at them.
Everything inside Giles begged him to turn the car around and get Buffy out of there. There was evil here, massive, unbridled evil. Whatever was inside that house was unlike anything the Slayer had been called on to face in the past.
There was death inside.
"I'll go open the gates." Buffy unbuckled her seat belt.
Giles pushed up his glasses. "No! That is, they might be locked."
"And that's going to stop Supergirl," Xander said.
"I'll sound the horn," Giles said.
"I can take care of it," Buffy insisted, clearly amused. She gave Giles a lazy half smile and opened her car door.
That was when they heard the screams. Inhuman shrieks came from beyond the black gate, and after a moment, Giles felt almost certain that, somehow, the agonized wailing was coming from the house itself.
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