Houses Without Doors, Peter Straub
Houses Without Doors, Peter Straub
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Houses Without Doors

Author: Peter Straub

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Unabridged: 12 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 02/01/2012

Categories: Fiction, Horror

Synopsis

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."

About Peter Straub

Peter Straub is a New York Times bestselling author, most famous for his work in the horror genre being honored as a grand master at the 1998 World Horror Convention. He has won the World Fantasy Award for Koko (1989), and the Bram Stoker Award for his novels The Throat (1993), Mr. X.(1999) and Lost Boy, Lost Girl (2003) as well as for his collection of short stories, 5 Stories (2007). He lives in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by mark on May 25, 2018

various stories, oddments, and novellas. despite the obvious talents of the author, the collection is strikingly variable in quality. a difficult one to rate! as always, Straub mines inner landscapes for psychological horror gold. sadly much coal was mined as well. that said, and despite whatever res......more

Goodreads review by Dave on October 17, 2022

"Every night he comes thudding out of sleep, covered in sweat and staring into the dark. Something huge and scaly is twisting away into nothingness. There you are again, he thinks, there you are, old friend." Initial Thoughts The Great 2022 Straub read-a-thon continues with my first crack at......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on August 01, 2014

Peter Straub elevates horror/dark fiction to an art form. Delectable prose, stories with a literary and artistic bent...this stuff is not to be missed.......more

Goodreads review by Maciek on February 06, 2012

Peter Straub has long since created a name for himself in the horror genre, with Clive Barker praising his work and calling him a great classicist.Houses Without Doors is an excellent collection of short fiction, illustrating his versatility and style. Named after a Emily Dickinson poem ("Doom is the......more

Goodreads review by Olethros on April 17, 2015

-Haciendo género de una forma muy personal e intimista.- Género. Relatos. Lo que nos cuenta. Seis relatos del autor (alguno parece una novela corta) separados por interludios que parecen microrrelatos abiertos, que se acercan a concepciones muy personales del horror (que no del terror). ¿Quiere saber m......more

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