If You Could See Me Now

"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

”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

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

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