


The Templetons are astonished when Hoover is able to calm Ivy by calling her Audrey Rose.

However, Ivy's night terrors grow steadily worse. The Templetons refuse to believe Hoover and order him to stay away from their daughter. In an effort to rescue his daughter's soul, Hoover began to research births that coincided with his daughter's death, gradually determining that his daughter's soul now resides in Ivy Templeton. Because of this immediate reincarnation, Audrey Rose's soul was not allowed the necessary time to reflect in the spirit world, causing her to be trapped forever at the moment of her horrific death. To heal his mental anguish, he visited a clairvoyant who revealed that his daughter had been immediately reincarnated as another young girl born at the moment of Audrey Rose's death. Hoover explains to the Templetons that he lost his wife and their three-year-old daughter, Audrey Rose, in a fiery car crash. One night while Ivy is in the middle of one of these episodes, the stranger contacts them directly and introduces himself as Elliot Hoover. This stalking seems to coincide with Ivy's horrible night terrors in which she beats at the windows and screams. It was adapted into the 1977 film of the same name.īill and Janice Templeton's peaceful lives are cast into chaos when a strange man begins fixating on their eleven-year-old daughter Ivy. The book was followed by a 1982 sequel, For Love of Audrey Rose. The book was inspired by an incident in which De Felitta's young son began displaying unusual talents and interests, leading an occultist to suggest to De Felitta that the child might be remembering a previous life. Audrey Rose is a novel written by Frank De Felitta, published in 1975, about a couple confronted with the idea that their young daughter might be the reincarnation of another man's child.
