Houses Without Doors
Written by Peter Straub
Narrated by Patrick Lawlor
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
These psychic and horror fictions—seven of them short-shorts—reveals Straub at his spellbinding best. Two tales (first installments of his Blue Rose trilogy), are linked to Koko and Mystery and exactingly probe the consequences of boyhood clashes with evil.
In "Blue Rose," sadistic Harry Beevers, 10, hypnotizes and destroys his younger brother; the tale leaps ahead to the ironic verdict in Harry's court-martial for wreaking atrocities in Vietnam.
In the outstanding "The Juniper Tree," a novelist relives a harrowing, seductive summer when, at age seven, he was sexually molested in a movie house by drifter Stan, a seedy Alan Ladd lookalike.
"The Buffalo Hunter" fastidiously chronicles the fixations of a 35-year-old who numbs his fear of women by sucking his coffee and cognac from baby bottles.
In the ambitious gothic thriller/academic spoof "Mrs. God," a fatuous professor is lured to a creepy English mansion crammed with grisly secrets to research the papers of his poet ancestress; dead babies provide a subtheme.
Wry and riveting, "A Short Guide to the City" fuses and parodies two genres: the self-congratulatory tourist blurb with a news alert on the "viaduct killer."
Peter Straub
Born in Milwaukee, Peter Straub is the author of fifteen 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 his acclaimed novel Mr X, a collection of short stories, Magic Terror, and Black House, the international bestselling novel that he co-wrote with Stephen King.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Some good and varied writing from Straub. The novella is the original Blue Rose story and there is a lot else that fills in gaps for that series of books--not that they are necessarily directly related, but they kind of fill in the mental landscape behind Blue Rose. And there's plenty else to enjoy--Straub going places in short form that you may have never seen him before, and writing quite well in them. Definitely worth a try for anyone who liked the Blue Rose novels, or anyone who enjoys intelligently done suspense & horror.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is a collection of short stories by Peter Straub. Each story was unique, to say the least. Some were rather disturbing, others weird, & some psychologically creepy. His stories reflect much thought into the thin line between sanity & insanity. Definitely interesting to read.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Thirteen unconnected short stories by Peter Straub. Some only a few paragraphs long, and some very odd.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A great collection of horror stories from a master of the genre.