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: Mark Deakins

Unabridged: 12 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/12/2016

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 Arden, Wisconsin, 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 The Author

PETER STRAUB is the New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen novels. In the Night Room and Lost Boy, Lost Girl are winners of the Bram Stoker Award, as is his collection 5 Stories. Straub is the editor of numerous anthologies, including the two-volume The American Fantastic Tale from the Library of America. He died in 2022.

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 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

Goodreads review by Cody | CodysBookshelf on June 18, 2019

This was a reread, but it might as well have been a first read for all I discovered this time around. I feel like I said something similar when reviewing Peter Straub’s previous novel, Julia, another book that took maturation on my part to fully “get”. If You Could See Me Now is an improvement on al......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on September 25, 2015

A pleasure, as always. Straub's stories never fail to be psychologically intricate, tense, disquieting, and yet satisfying at the same time.......more

Quotes

"ELECTRIFYING."
--STEPHEN KING

"COMPULSIVE READING . . . MARVELOUS ATMOSPHERE, SUSPENSE, AND A TRULY GRAND GUIGNOL ENDING."
--DOROTHY EDEN
   Author of Sleep in the Woods

"STRAUB IS TERRIFYINGLY ACCOMPLISHED IN THE ART OF HORROR."
--Entertainment Weekly

"A FINE STORYTELLER."
--The Washington Post

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