Shadowland - Softcover

Straub, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0425188221 ISBN 13: 9780425188224

Publisher: Berkley, 2003

Synopsis

You have been there...
if you have ever been afraid.

 

Come back. To a dark house deep in the Vermont woods, where two friends are spending a season of horror, apprenticed to a Master Magician.

 

Learning secrets best left unlearned. Entering a world of incalculable evil more ancient than death itself. More terrifying. And more real.

 

Only one of them will make it through.

About this title

Review:

First setting: an all-male prep school in Arizona, where two sensitive freshmen form a bond based on their interest in magic tricks. Second setting: the labyrinthine house of a weird magician uncle in New England, where the two boys spend a memorable summer being trained in the art of illusion. Or is it real magic? Third setting: an alternate world where dark forces are at play--forces that first show up at the school, but intensify their power the summer. Shadowland is a superb, under-recognized, early novel from a master of literary terror. Get it while it's back in print!

About the Author:

Peter Straub is one of America’s foremost authors of supernatural and suspense fiction. He is the New York Times bestselling author of a dozen novels, including the horror classic Ghost Story and The Talisman, which he cowrote with Stephen King. His latest novel, Black House—also written with King—is a #1 New York Times bestseller. A past president of the Horror Writers of America and multiple award winner, he lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Berkley
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0425188221
• ISBN 13: 9780425188224
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 480