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If You Could See Me Now
One summer night in 1955, a boy and his cousin plunge naked into the moonlit waters of a rural quarry. Only one of them emerges.
Just as he had promised he would on that fateful night two decades earlier, Miles Teagarden--now divorced and a struggling writer--returns to his family home in Arden, Wisconsin. But the landscape he once knew so well has turned eerie and threatening. In the small town, his erstwhile friends and rivals, even his blood relatives, view him with suspicion. Their paranoia seems justified when another beautiful blonde teenage girl goes missing--much as his cousin Alison did all those years ago. Miles feels a dark force is at work, gathering strength. As the anniversary of the tragic night approaches, he begins to fear that Alison will find a way to make their date . . .
Book Details
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publish Date: May 19th, 2015
- Pages: 368
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.20in - 0.80in - 0.60lb
- EAN: 9780804172851
- Categories: • Horror - General• Ghost• Psychological
About the Author
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What people are saying
Too Much Horror Fiction reviews vintage horror lit & celebrates its resplendent paperback covers. Coauthor, Stoker Award-winning PAPERBACKS FROM HELL
@RichTate I read IF YOU COULD SEE ME NOW right after Straub died—I absolutely loved it!
The arts world's front page - Arts stories from across the internet - Editor: @AJDoug
Peter Straub, Author Of Horror Classics "If You Could See Me Now", "Ghost Story", And "Shadowland", Dead At 79: https://t.co/YeXgGjAM7F #arts #artsnews "One of the most celebrated writers of tales of horror, psychological thrillers and stories, ... he was the winner of nu... https://t.co/E5uHvmbvCy
Writes the twisted fiction your mother warned you about // aka Garrett Addams (Jumper in Stephen King's On Writing) // The life of a writer is always intense
Saddened to hear of Peter Straub's passing. A writer I admired enormously coming up. I remember the impression his "If You Could See Me Now" made on me, how fresh & exciting his use of the unreliable narrator trope felt to me.
Praise for this book
"An electrifying finish: During the last forty pages my hands were as good as nailed to the book." --Stephen King
"Straub is terrifyingly accomplished in the art of horror." --Entertainment Weekly
"Peter Straub is a national treasure." --Lawrence Block
"You expect the horrifying in the fiction of Peter Straub . . . and you get it." --The New York Times
"More than a good storyteller with a talent for scaring readers. He's a writer who transcends his genre." --USA Today
"[Straub] is a master at blurring the supernatural, the real-world-scary, and the monsters in your psyche." --The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)
"Not since Edgar Allan Poe has an author taken such liberties with his readers' nerves." --Cosmopolitan
"Straub's literary specialty . . . is not dreams but nightmares. . . . He's particularly adept at the kind of creepy psychological yarn pioneered by Henry James and modernized by Shirley Jackson." --Salon
"Straub is the master of subtle, smoldering dread." --People
"Peter Straub is one of his generation's best storytellers. . . . [Stephen] King goes for your jugular; Straub goes for your brain." --Tor.com
What people are saying
Too Much Horror Fiction reviews vintage horror lit & celebrates its resplendent paperback covers. Coauthor, Stoker Award-winning PAPERBACKS FROM HELL
@RichTate I read IF YOU COULD SEE ME NOW right after Straub died—I absolutely loved it!
The arts world's front page - Arts stories from across the internet - Editor: @AJDoug
Peter Straub, Author Of Horror Classics "If You Could See Me Now", "Ghost Story", And "Shadowland", Dead At 79: https://t.co/YeXgGjAM7F #arts #artsnews "One of the most celebrated writers of tales of horror, psychological thrillers and stories, ... he was the winner of nu... https://t.co/E5uHvmbvCy