Elegant,terrifying,provocative...the best collection of suspense and horror fiction in many years.Magic Terror is bliss for readers whose love of the eere doesn't preclude a taste for literary elegance.
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...No one tells a story like Peter Straub. He startles you into laughter in the face of events so dark that you begin to question your own moral compass. Then he reduces you to jelly by spinning a tale so terrifying that you wind up sleeping with the lights on. Now, with these seven acclaimed stories - including the award-winning 'Mr Clubb and Mr Cuff' and 'The Ghost Village' - he - gives us his mOSt imaginatively unsettling collection yet.