The gothic worlds of Peter Straub / John C. Tibbetts ; foreword by Gary K. Wolfe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tibbetts, John C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Straub, Peter, 1943-2022.

Straub, Peter.

Physical Description:

x, 248 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2016]

Summary:

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 and featuring an exclusive interview with King, this study explores the work of the author who has been called "a writer of rare wit and intelligence in a field beset with cynical potboilers" (Douglas E. Winter, Washington Post, October 14, 1984). Book jacket.

Contents:

1 "The Magic Taxi": The Short Stories 19

2 "A Dark Necessity": Straub's American Gothic 26

3 "King of the Cats": The Fairy Tales 50

4 "Protean Impostures": Straub and the Doppelganger 71

5 "Datchery's Children": Stories of Crime and Detection 95

6 "The Third Voice": Straub and Stephen King 146

7 "Invisible Ink": On Writers and Writing 168.

ISBN:

9781476664927

1476664927

OCLC:

958084342