Floating Dragon

Floating Dragon is a 1983 novel by author Peter Straub.

Plot summary

The novel is about a fictional town, Hampstead. Everything is going down there, the birds die and people get sick. The main reason for that is that a "dragon" is taking down the town. It is a paranormal novel. On the story the reader can see how almost all the characters are affected by it.

It all starts with the murder of ‘Stony’ Susan Baxter in the bedroom community of Hampstead, Connecticut. After that we follow several plot threads: an accident at a chemical plant working on a project for the Department of Defense releases a (possibly sentient) cloud of nerve gas, a child actor and his wife who have moved back to his home town and Graham Williams, a retired writer who is looking into Hampstead’s past.