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Interior Darkness: Selected Stories
| Author: | Peter Straub |
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Doubleday, 2016 |
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| Genre: | Horror |
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Synopsis
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.
Table of Contents:
- Blue Rose - (1985) - novella
- In the Realm of Dreams - (1990) - short fiction
- The Juniper Tree - (1988) - novelette
- Going Home - (1990) - short fiction
- The Buffalo Hunter - (1990) - novella
- Bar Talk - (2005) - short story
- A Short Guide to the City - (1990) - short story
- Ashputtle - (1994) - novelette
- Pork Pie Hat - (1994) - novella
- Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff - (1997) - novella
- Little Red's Tango - (2002) - novelette
- Lapland, or Film Noir - (2004) - short story
- Mr. Aickman's Air Rifle - (2004) - novella
- Mallon the Guru - (2010) - short story
- The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine - (2011) - novella
- The Collected Stories of Freddie Prothero - (2013) - short story
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