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Synopsis
Another chilling story from the Houses Without Doors collection. Presented with the research opportunity of a lifetime, a college professor leaves his pregnant wife in the States and heads for a British country estate. But nothing is as it appears, and soon the professor finds himself in a frightening situation.
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About the Author
Peter Straub is the New York Times bestselling author of seventeen novels, which have been translated into more than twenty languages. His two collaborations with Stephen King, The Talisman and Black House, were international bestsellers. Two of Peter’s most recent novels, Lost Boy Lost Girl and In the Night Room, were winners of the Bram Stoker award. In 2006, he was given the Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award. Peter and his wife live in New York City.
From Booklist
William Standish gets what he hopes is his entrée to the prestige track in modern-lit studies when he is invited to Esswood, an English country house once frequented by the gods of high modernism—and his grandfather’s first wife. There he intends to complete his work on Isobel Standish’s poetry, more of which resides in manuscript in Esswood’s archives. In effect fleeing his pregnant wife, whose first child he insisted be aborted, he encounters little but strangeness on the road and upon arrival at Esswood. Despite the beauty of the place, things just become stranger for Standish, who ultimately melts down, thanks to malignity in the house as well as his tortured psyche. Appearing first in Houses without Doors (1990), then, lengthened, in a limited edition, Straub’s novella emerges once more in a general trade printing. Not as polished, though fully as intricate, as Straub’s recent work, in the right hands it could, however, become a haunted-house movie more shockingly eldritch than the 1961 Turn of the Screw adaptation, The Innocents, not to mention Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. --Ray Olson
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- PublisherAudioworks
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0671748793
- ISBN 13 9780671748791
- BindingAudio Cassette
- LanguageEnglish
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Mrs God by Peter Straub (1991, Hardcover) : Peter Straub (Hardcover, 1991)
Seller: Streamside Books, Waterville, ME, U.S.A.
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Condition: BRAND_NEW. new item in original plastic wrap which may have been torn or have a remainder mark. location AUD 1; 2 cassettes, approx 180 minutes. Seller Inventory # 10723
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