In the Night Room, Peter Straub
In the Night Room, Peter Straub
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In the Night Room

Author: Peter Straub

Narrator: Scott Brick

Unabridged: 10 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/08/2004

Synopsis

Willy Patrick, the author of the Caldecott-winning young-adult novel In the Night Room, thinks she is loosing her mind again. Two weeks before her second marriage, on her way home one day, Willy is drawn into the parking lot of a warehouse. Knowing that her daughter Holly is being held in that building, she wants to rescue her. But what she knows is impossible, for her daughter is dead. On the same day, author Timothy Underhill, struggling with a new book about a troubled young woman, is confronted with the ghost of his nine-year-old sister, April. Soon after, Underhill begins to receive eerie, fragmented e-mails that he finally realizes are from dead people whom he knew in his youth. Like his sister, they want to tell him something. When Willy and Timothy meet, they recognize each other, realizing that they must join forces to confront the evils surrounding them.

"Peter Straub is the master of subtle, smoldering dread [whose] creepy, erudite vision of the beyond will chill you like a winter wind." (People)

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 were winners of the Bram Stoker Award, as was his collection 5 Stories. Straub is the editor of numerous anthologies, including the two-volume American Fantastic Tales from the Library of America. He lives in Brooklyn.Scott Brick, an acclaimed voice artist, screenwriter, and actor, has performed on film, television, and radio. His stage appearances throughout the US include Cyrano, Hamlet, and MacBeth. In the audio industry, Scott has won over 20 Earphones Awards, as well as the 2003 Audie Award in the Best Science Fiction category for Dune: The Butlerian Jihad. After recording nearly 250 books in five years, AudioFile Magazine named Scott “one of the fastest-rising stars in the audiobook galaxy” and proclaimed him one of their Golden Voices. Brick’s range is unparalleled as he reads thrillers to narrative nonfiction, from biographies to science fiction with aplomb.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jonathan on August 02, 2012

About 20 pages into "In The Night Room," Peter Straub reveals that his previous book, "lost boy lost girl," was a bit of a put-on, a fictional novel written by Straub's fictional alter ego, Timothy Underhill. That seems kind of a dirty trick to play on readers who invested their time and suspension......more

Goodreads review by Maciek on October 04, 2011

I absolutely love the idea which Straub presents in this book - there is a very special edition of each published book, just one copy. It falls from the printing press like all the others, is distributed, stocked and sold, but it's different. It's the book that the author meant to write. The charact......more

Goodreads review by Kirsten on February 29, 2008

I've seen this panned elsewhere, but I really enjoyed it and got into it. I love the way Straub plays with reality in his books; for example, you've got this character, Tim Underhill, who tends to write books with the same title as Peter Straub books (like lost boy lost girl). But you're never reall......more

Goodreads review by Mike on November 20, 2023

At times, it's brilliant. At others, it's confusing, and others are just overlong, and for a relatively short book, that's not a good thing. An unnecessary follow-up to the brilliant Lost Boy, Lost Girl.......more

Goodreads review by Amy on November 16, 2007

There were alot of unique things about this novel: an author meeting his characters, dead people sending e-mails to the living, the concept of a "perfect" book. However, alot of the details and characters were far fetched and did not make sense. For example, why have the main character Tim Underhill......more

Quotes

“A powerful and arresting foray into the dark fantastic.”—The Washington Post Book World

“So imaginative, intricate, and electrifying that readers will be tempted to race through the novel.”—Associated Press

“A chase novel and a metafictional fun ride that, like much of Straub’s work, takes genre elements and twists them into something unexpected.”—Time Out New York

“A twisting, fast-paced plot.”—USA Today

“A brilliant work of horrific fantasy . . . Anyone looking for a good read providing plenty of thrills while doling out literary meditations on the nature of fantasy vs. reality won't find a better book.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“[A] brilliant novel . . . Moving briskly while ranging from high humor to the blackest dread, this is an original, astonishingly smart and expertly entertaining meditation on imagination and its powers; one of the very finest works of Straub’s long career, it’s a sure bet for future award nominations.”—Publishers Weekly

“Popular fiction of an intriguingly high order, deftly exploring how imagination not only draws on reality but can actually shape it.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

“A fascinating jumble of fantasy and reality.”—BookPage

"Straub’s truly twisted talent for weirdness takes off into a full-blown hurricane of reality-bending, mind-boggling proportions. . . . This book will really unravel your brains. Definitely a must-read.”—Realms of Fantasy

“This must-read horror tale is simply incredible in every way. Tender, dark, and simmering with a wry irony that is just plain inspired, it’s the perfect book for a cold autumn afternoon.”—New Mystery Reader

“Yet another brilliant piece of work by a writer who should long ago have been honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award.”—Amazing Stories

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