Magic Terror - Seven Tales

Zusatztext “A POWERFUL GATHERING OF SUSPENSE AND HORROR STORIES.” –The Denver Post “Compelling . . . Magic Terror is bliss for readers whose love of the eerie doesn’t preclude a taste for literary elegance. . . . [Straub] is one of the few fin-de-siècle writers whose stories can stand alongside works by 20th-century masters of the macabre such as King! Robert Aickman! Shirley Jackson! and Edith Wharton.” – The Washington Post Book World “There is no safety in this literate and much praised cluster of stories. It’s beautifully written stuff that breaks into the place where you live! breaching all psychologically installed security systems. . . . And although we desire to read it for many reasons! the truest one is that Peter Straub writes with compassion. He gets the link between modern horror and classic tragedy.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer Informationen zum Autor Peter Straub authored numerous bestselling novels, including Ghost Story , Floating Dragon , Shadowland , and Julia —as well as The Talisman and Black House , which he co-authored with Stephen King. He also published short fiction, poetry, and a graphic novel. A prolific Grand Master of Horror, he won the British Fantasy Award; ten Bram Stoker Awards; three International Horror Guild Awards; ten World Fantasy Awards; and was the recipient of several Lifetime Achievement Awards. He passed away in 2022. Klappentext Welcome to another kind of terror as Peter Straub leads us into the outer reaches of the psyche. Here the master of the macabre is at his absolute best in seven exquisite tales of living, dying, and the terror that lies in between. . . . AshputtleIsn't It Romantic? "CHILLING.”"SKILLFULLY CONSTRUCTED.” -The New York Times-Kirkus Reviews (starred review) The Ghost VillageBunny Is Good Bread Winner of a World Fantasy Award"TERRIFYING.” "VERY, VERY SCARY.”-The Washington Post Book World -The Philadelphia Inquirer Porkpie HatHunger, An Introduction "DARK TWISTS AND"BRILLIANTLY SUBVERSIVE.” DARKER HUMOR.”-Locus -USA Today Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff Winner of a Bram Stoker Award "[A] TOUR-DE-FORCE . . . [THAT] WILL HAUNT READERS LONG AFTER THEY'VE CLOSED THE COVERS.” -The Denver Post "PETER STRAUB IS AN EXCELLENT WRITER. . . . HE MAKES US FEEL THE TERROR.” -The Philadelphia Inquirer Leseprobe Ashputtle People think that teaching little children has something to do with helping other people, something to do with service. People think that if you teach little children, you must love them. People get what they need from thoughts like this. People think that if you happen to be very fat and are a person who acts happy and cheerful all the time, you are probably pretending to be that way in order to make them forget how fat you are, or cause them to forgive you for being so fat. They make this assumption, thinking you are so stupid that you imagine that you're getting away with this charade. From this assumption, they get confidence in the superiority of their intelligence over yours, and they get to pity you, too. Those figments, those stepsisters, came to me and said, Don't you know that we want to help you? They came to me and said, Can you tell us what your life is like? These moronic questions they asked over and over: Are you all right? Is anything happening to you? Can you talk to us now, darling? Can you tell us about your life? I stared straight ahead, not looking at their pretty hair or pretty eyes or pretty mouths. I looked over their shoulders at the pattern on the wallpaper and tried not to blink until they stood up and went away. What my life was like? What was happening to me? Nothing was happening to me. I was all right. They smiled briefly, like a twitch in their eyes ...

Product details

• Authors: Peter Straub
• Publisher: Fawcett Book Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.08.2001
• EAN: 9780449006887
• ISBN: 978-0-449-00688-7
• No. of pages: 370
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 175 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Random House Publishing Group
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature