The passionate man who loves with strength and lives with violence...
The silent, lonely boy who exists in a world of strange loves and longings...
The evil, terrifying creature of the night, which destroys as it clings, which consumes as it touches...
Through a nightmare world of fear and forbidden emotions, man and boy move irrevocably towards the blinding moment of confrontation with the night creature – to the shattering revelation that they are all THE DARK TRAVELER.

This gripping novel by Pulitzer Prize winning author Josephine Johnson, first published in 1963, tells the tale of a man imprisoned by a strange passions and violent fears, and of a woman who has pledged to lead him out of the darkness.