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"Buy it today. Anything by Straub is worth several thousand John Sauls and a million V.C. Andrewses."--Philadelphia Inquirer

"A book that positively bubbles with invention, jammed with characters, color, events, hackle-raising twists of fate, horrific monsters, terrifying nightmares, and a reality that shimmers and shifts as much as the noxious stream from a witch's cauldron."--Book World