If You Could See Me Now, Peter Straub
If You Could See Me Now, Peter Straub
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If You Could See Me Now

Author: Peter Straub

Narrator: Keir Dullea

Abridged: 2 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Audio Holdings

Published: 01/01/2000

Categories: Fiction, Horror


Synopsis

One summer night a boy and his beautiful cousin plunge naked into the moonlit waters of a rural quarry. Twenty years later, the boy, now grown, flees the wreckage of his life and returns to his home town in search of everything he has lost. But for Miles Teagarden, the landscape he had known so well has turned eerie and threatening. And the love he shared has become very, very deadly…

About Peter Straub

Peter Straub is the award-winning author of more than fifteen novels, including Dark Matter and In the Night Room. He is also the editor of several anthologies.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Dave on August 27, 2022

"Evil is what we call the force we can discover when we send our minds as far as they can go: when the mind crumbles before something bigger, harder than itself, unknowable and hostile." Initial Thoughts If You Could See Me Now is one of the early works from one of the true masters of horror......more

Goodreads review by Corey on October 10, 2021

”The Midwest is the place for ghosts, I realized, the truest place for them; they could throng up these wide empty Main Streets and populate the fields. I could almost feel them around me.” If You Could See Me Now is Peter Straub’s second foray into the horror world. At the time of its writin......more

Goodreads review by Maciek on October 24, 2011

This is quite an improvement from Julia, which was Straub's first novel of the supernatural. For my taste, Julia relied too much on gothic tropes and was uncannily similar to Rosemary's Baby to truly stand own on its own merit. In If You Could See Me Now Straub has improved his style and found a voi......more

Goodreads review by Bandit on February 02, 2016

Good, very good, dangerously close to great. This was by far the best Straub book I've read. For some reason when a lot of the popular genre authors started out back in the 70s, they had the ability to tell a coherent compelling story in 300 to 400 pages easily. With years came verbosity, which isn'......more