If You Could See Me Now

by Peter Straub

Overview

One summer night, a boy and his beautiful cousin plunge naked into the moonlit waters of a rural quarry. Twenty years later, the boy, now grown, flees the wreckage of his life and returns to Arden, Wisconsin, in search of everything he has lost.

But for Miles Teagarden, the landscape he had known so well has turned eerie and threatening. And the love he shared has become very, very deadly . . .

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780804172868
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/19/2015
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

PETER STRAUB is the New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen novels. In the Night Room and Lost Boy, Lost Girl are winners of the Bram Stoker Award, as is his collection 5 Stories. Straub is the editor of numerous anthologies, including the two-volume American Fantastic Tale from the Library of America. He died in 2022.

Hometown:

New York City

Date of Birth:

March 2, 1943

Place of Birth:

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Education:

B.A. in English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1965; M.A., Columbia University, 1966

Website:

http://www.peterstraub.net

Editorial Reviews

Suspenseful.” —The New York Times

“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

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