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In the Night Room (Paperback)

by Peter Straub (Author)
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  • Paperback: 528 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd (4 Jul 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0007184425
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007184422
  • Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11.2 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 447,937 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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PRAISE FOR PETER STRAUB: 'Straub is a master at creating fear out of everyday life.' Sunday Telegraph 'No one is better than Straub at having whole communities rocked by the forces of wickedness.' Observer PRAISE FOR LOST BOY LOST GIRL: 'Lost Boy Lost Girl is intense and yet measured; serious and melancholy at times, but also humorous. Straub's prose has a tart clarity that allows him to delineate the muddiness of life with great economy and richness. He has a superb ear for dialogue, both spoken and silent. He is adept, too, with ambiguity; the emotional blur of the real world, of our tentative and ambivalent responses to each other and the things we do. These qualities create an atmosphere that lingers like the novel's own ghost, and Straub achieves this invisibly, in the background. He doesn't insist you notice how intelligent and subtle the novel is, and you don't: you merely appreciate how good a time you're having, and that you don't want it to stop.' Michael Marshall, Guardian 'Stephen King's mate and co-author puts the monster master into the shade. This'll have you anxiously contemplating the shadows' Mirror 'Mr Straub's latest is an unusually taut, dynamic, spooky display of horror expertise, and its story is deftly told.' New York Times FROM THE REVIEWS OF BLACK HOUSE: 'One of the most brilliant and chilling thrillers of modern times.' Daily Mail 'Fabulous. The ultimate in storytelling by two masters of the craft.' Independent on Sunday 'A new horror epic ... impossible to put down once you have started.' Sunday Express


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A dazzling new chilller from the bestselling author of Koko and Lost Boy Lost Girl. Award-winning children's book author Willy Patrick seems to be having a breakdown. Figures from her past are coming to visit her, most frighteningly her dead daughter, Holly, who was murdered together with Willy's first husband. Then Willy discovers her mysterious fiance may well have been responsible for the deaths of her husband and daughter. After fleeing the house they are renovating she runs into Tim Underhill, also an author haunted by the deaths of loved ones. In fact, his long-deceased nine-year-old sister recently appeared to him on the way to his favourite diner, and he's been getting strange emails from people in his home town -- none of whom are still alive. But what really spooks him is the realization that Willy seems to be the heroine of the book he is currently working on, in precisely the mortal peril he has invented for her...

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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Straub continues to intrigue me! ( b-o jonsson@hotmail.com), 7 Jun 2005
By B. Jonsson "Literate Warlock" (falun, dalarna sweden) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: In the Night Room (Hardcover)
In the Night Room definitely isn't the best Straub book I've read, but still manages to keep me wondering, thinking, wanting more. He keeps the readers guessing what will happen next, since
his world of Millhaven seems to have it's own laws of nature, seems to be a wardrobe, through which to enter the spirit world.
The book deals with a complicated plot. Underhill, receiving threats from the evil spirit of serial killer Joseph Kalender, after having published a book about him that depicting him as abuser and killer of his own daughter; suddenly meets the main character of the book he is currently writing..
Could it be more complicated and unbelieavable?
It isn't necessary to have read Lost Boy Lost Girl, the novel where Kalender was first introduced, but I'd say it is imperative that you have indeed read some book/books of Straub's before, or you would soon get lost in the story.

Straub's language is at it's best and it is always scary how his evil characters choose their words. I don't know how he does it, but they always make me shiver.
I must confess that although I like tales of the unnatural, I would prefer Mr Straub not mixing quite so much.
I wish his qualities as a crime story writer, that were so obvious in the Throat and Mystery, would show more. I would like to see Tim Underhill solve other mysterious crimes, without the help of angels and spirits.

All in all, for Straub fans, the book is a must.
For other readers it may be a little hard to digest, but ever so brilliant in it's complications.
Buy it, read it and decide for yourselves!
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