The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub
The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub
by John C. Tibbetts
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1476664927 | 259 Pages | PDF | 22 MB
by John C. Tibbetts
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1476664927 | 259 Pages | PDF | 22 MB
Horror novelist Peter Straub creates highly personalized fiction with an allusiveness and ambiguity that deny the genre's explicit nature. For him, the Gothic style is to be created and recreated in a changing world–Faustian pacts, buried secrets, haunted places, ghosts, vampires and succubi take on strange new shapes and effects. Stephen King describes Straub's style as "a synthesis of horror and beauty."
Drawing on interviews with Straub and featuring an exclusive interview with King, this study explores the work of the author who has been called "a writer of rare wit and intelligence in a field beset with cynical potboilers".
"With The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub, John Tibbetts makes a major contribution to the study of one of America's finest, most underrated novelists. Approaching Straub's complex body of work from a variety of thematic and literary perspectives, Tibbetts has written an intelligent, highly readable volume that no future Straub scholar can afford to ignore. This is an important - and very necessary - book." - Bill Sheehan, At the Foot of the Story Tree