Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub
Horror novelist Peter Straub creates highly personalized fiction with an allusiveness and ambiguity that deny the genre''s explicit nature. For him, the Gothic style is to be created and recreated in a changing world--Faustian pacts, buried secrets, haunted places, ghosts, vampires and succubi take on strange new shapes and effects. Stephen King describes Straub''s style as "a synthesis of horr...
Horror novelist Peter Straub creates highly personalized fiction with an allusiveness and ambiguity that deny the genre''s explicit nature. For him, the Gothic style is to be created and recreated in a changing world--Faustian pacts, buried secrets, haunted places, ghosts, vampires and succubi take on strange new shapes and effects. Stephen King describes Straub''s style as "a synthesis of horr...
