Fisher, David E. Katie's Terror (New York: William Morrow, 1982) 263 p.

Katherine McGregor Townsend is a librarian at the 42nd Street branch of the New York Public Library. We find her at her job in the information booth and in the closed stacks, with descriptions of shelving and retrieving procedures. We learn that the books are shelved by size rather than by subject. "The library is, in these deepest depths of what is after all its soul, the very antithesis of its public conception; there is little quiet, calm, and peace here. At night, of course, it is a different story. At night the stacks are empty, deserted, dark and very nearly haunted. A spine-chilling chase in the stacks and a falling stack of books climaxes this entertaining story.