"An extraordinarily gripping and tantalizing read." --New Statesman

"A crazy-quilt of horror." --Milwaukee Journal

"Genuinely frightening." --Chicago Tribune

"I haven't read anything that so terrifyingly evoked the presence of evil and supernatural threat since The Exorcist. Julia may be better." --The Buffalo News

"Haunting, in every sense of the word." --Robert Bloch, author of Psycho

"You expect the horrifying in the fiction of Peter Straub . . . and you get it." --The New York Times

"[Straub] is a master at blurring the supernatural, the real-world-scary, and the monsters in your psyche." --The Plain Dealer

"Not since Edgar Allan Poe has an author taken such liberties with his readers' nerves." --Cosmopolitan

"Straub is the master of subtle, smoldering dread." --People

"Straub well understands the dark recesses of the psyche where the personal demons dwell." --Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"Peter Straub is a fine storyteller." --The Washington Post

"When Peter Straub turns on all his jets, no one in the scream factory can equal him." --Stephen King