Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub

by John C. Tibbetts

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 horror and beauty."

Drawing on interviews with Straub...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476664927
• ISBN13: 9781476664927
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher