In the Night Room - Softcover

Straub, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007184425 ISBN 13: 9780007184422

Publisher: Harpercollins Pub Ltd, 2005

Synopsis

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...

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

In his latest soul-chilling novel, bestselling author Peter Straub tells of a famous children's book author who, in the wake of a grotesque accident, realizes that the most basic facts of her existence, including her existence itself, have come into question.
Willy Patrick, the respected author of the award-winning young-adult novel "In the Night Room, thinks she is losing her mind-again. One day, she is drawn helplessly into the parking lot of a warehouse. She knows somehow that her daughter, Holly, is being held in the building, and she has an overwhelming need to rescue her. But what Willy knows is impossible, for her daughter is dead.
On the same day, author Timothy Underhill, who has been struggling with a new book about a troubled young woman, is confronted with the ghost of his nine-year-old sister, April. Soon after, he begins to receive eerie, fragmented e-mails that he finally realizes are from people he knew in his youth-people now dead. Like his sister, they want urgently to tell him something. When Willy and Timothy meet, the frightening parallels between Willy's tragic loss and the story in Tim's manuscript suggest that they must join forces to confront the evils surrounding them.

"From the Hardcover edition.

About the Author:

Born in Milwaukee, Peter Straub is the author of sixteen novels, which have been translated into more than twenty languages. He has won the British Fantasy Award, two Bram Stoker awards and two World Fantasy awards. His most recent publications are a collection of short stories, MAGIC TERROR, the acclaimed novel LOST BOY LOST GIRL and BLACK HOUSE, the international bestselling novel that he co-wrote with Stephen King.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0007184425
• ISBN 13: 9780007184422
• Binding: Paperback