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Interior darkness : selected stories / Peter Straub.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Doubleday, [2016]Edition: First editionDescription: 478 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780385541053 (hardcover)
  • 0385541058 (hardcover)
Uniform titles:
  • Short stories. Selections
Subject(s):
Contents:
From Houses without doors. Blue rose ; In the realm of dreams ; The juniper tree ; Going home ; The buffalo hunter ; Bar talk ; A short guide to the city -- From magic terror. Ashputtle ; Pork pie hat ; Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff -- From 5 stories. Little Red's tango ; Lapland, or film noir ; Mr. Aickman's air rifle -- Uncollected stories. Mallon the guru ; The ballad of Ballard and Sandrine ; The collected short stories of Freddy Prothero.
Summary: A collection of stories from the past twenty-five years includes "Mr. Club and Mr. Cuff," "The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine," and "Blue Rose."
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction Straub, Peter Available 33111008373868
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"If you care about the short story, you should read this book, and watch a master at work."
--Neil Gaiman

"Peter Straub brilliantly defies and blurs literary genres." --LORRIE MOORE

A MONUMENTAL COLLECTION OF SHORT FICTION FROM ACCLAIMED MASTER OF HORROR AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR PETER STRAUB

An American icon renowned for his bestselling novels, Peter Straub displays his full and stunning range in this crowning collection. He has consistently subverted the boundaries of genre for years, transcending horror and suspense to unlock the dark, unsettling, and troubling dissonances that exist on the edges of our perception. Straub's fiction cracks the foundation of reality and opens our eyes to an unblinking experience of true horror, told in his inimitable and lush style with skill, wit, and impeccable craft.
With uncanny precision, Straub writes of the city and of the Midwest, of the depraved and of the righteous, of the working class and of the wealthy--nothing and no one is safe from the ever-present darkness that he understands so well. "Blue Rose" follows the cycles of violence and power through the most innocent among us, leading to a conclusion that is audacious and devastating. In the darkly satirical masterpiece "Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff," a stern estate lawyer known as the Deacon hires a pair of "Private Detectives Extraordinaire" to investigate and seek revenge on his unfaithful wife. "The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine" follows a man and his much younger lover as they explore their decadent and increasingly sinister fantasies aboard a luxurious yacht on the remotest stretch of the Amazon River.
Interior Darkness brings together sixteen stories from twenty-five years of dazzling excellence. It is a thrilling, highly entertaining, and terrifying testament to the prodigious talent of Peter Straub.

From Houses without doors. Blue rose ; In the realm of dreams ; The juniper tree ; Going home ; The buffalo hunter ; Bar talk ; A short guide to the city -- From magic terror. Ashputtle ; Pork pie hat ; Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff -- From 5 stories. Little Red's tango ; Lapland, or film noir ; Mr. Aickman's air rifle -- Uncollected stories. Mallon the guru ; The ballad of Ballard and Sandrine ; The collected short stories of Freddy Prothero.

A collection of stories from the past twenty-five years includes "Mr. Club and Mr. Cuff," "The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine," and "Blue Rose."

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