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Description

A spectacular collection of short fiction which includes the seeds of Straub's powerful Blue Rose trilogy. "You expect the horrifying in the fiction of Peter Straub...and you get it." ( New York Times ) "Straub at his spellbinding best." ( Publishers Weekly )

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First Sentence

On stifling summer day the two youngest of the five Beevers children, Harry and Little Eddie, were sitting on cane-backed chairs in the attic of their house on South Sixth Street in Palmyra, New York.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Peter Straub (Author)

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  1. collection
  2. fiction
  3. horror
  4. lit
  5. novel
  6. peter straub
  7. short stories
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