House of Windows [NOOK Book]

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Overview

From John Langan (Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters) comes House of Windows, a chilling novel in the tradition of Peter Straub, Joe Hill, and Laird Barron.

When a young writer finds himself cornered by a beautiful widow in the waning hours of a late-night cocktail party, he seeks at first to escape, to return to his wife and infant son, but the tale she weaves, of her missing husband, a renowned English professor, and her lost stepson, a ...
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House of Windows

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Overview

From John Langan (Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters) comes House of Windows, a chilling novel in the tradition of Peter Straub, Joe Hill, and Laird Barron.

When a young writer finds himself cornered by a beautiful widow in the waning hours of a late-night cocktail party, he seeks at first to escape, to return to his wife and infant son, but the tale she weaves, of her missing husband, a renowned English professor, and her lost stepson, a soldier killed on a battlefield on the other side of the world, of phantasmal visions, a family curse, and a house... the Belvedere House, a striking mansion whose features suggest a face, hidden just out of view, draws him in, capturing him. What follows is a deeply psychological ghost story of memory and malediction, loss and remorse.
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A two-time International Horror Guild Award finalist for short fiction, Langan pens a surprisingly plodding first novel. Lovely widow Veronica Croydon corners the unnamed narrator at a party and offers to relate the weird story of her husband, Roger, and his disappearance. She spins an odd tale of adultery, family struggles and a house possibly haunted by the spirit of Roger's son, Ted, a Special Forces officer who died in Afghanistan after Roger disowned and cursed him. Though Veronica's story spans two nights, the level of detail stretches the confessional conceit well beyond the bounds of believability. Literary allusions offer a spark of interest, but even fans of Lovecraft and Peter Straub, whom Langan tries hard to emulate, will find it difficult to navigate the unnecessary tangents and repetitious minutiae that plague this pseudoliterary potboiler. (Oct.)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781597802697
  • Publisher: Night Shade Books
  • Publication date: 4/1/2009
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 256
  • Sales rank: 709,131
  • File size: 403 KB

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 25, 2013

    Very Difficult Read!

    I am the kind of reader that once I start a book I MUST finish it. This book shouldn't have taken me more than five days max but took over two weeks to complete! The author really needed to break the book up into chapters and define the timeline better. The incessant narrative by the main character and the way she constantly jumped about in the timeline was just too much for me. It took me six weeks to read the Quincunx (which I DEFINITELY don't recommend to ANYONE!) and that was a serious chore. Unfortunately I felt the same way about this book as well. It felt like listening to one of those people who obsess about themselves and don't care that you've fallen asleep during their self-absorbed monologue and I found it just about as interesting. :-(

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 4, 2012

    Much Promise

    The premise of the book was good, but it just went on and on and on. Read the whole book, but should have quit after about 50 pages.

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  • Posted July 2, 2012

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    Meh...

    First attempt at writing a full-length novel and I felt the author should have started with something less strange and less complex. This is supposed to be a psychological ghost story in the H.P. Lovecraft tradition, but the task was probably a little daunting for an inexperienced author. He gets an A+ for effort, but the novel was just way too slow and boring. The narrative vehicle worked well for 19th century novels like "Wuthering Heights" but probably a little too ambitious as well as outdated for a contemporary novel.

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  • Posted June 17, 2012

    Long and drawn out

    This could have been shortened instead of being 300+ pages. Irritating at times, but once I started I really wanted to find out the conclusion. Disappointed in that. Author could have gotten point across more quickly and could have laid out a much better story.

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    Posted June 18, 2012

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