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  • In the Night Room

  • A Novel
  • By: Peter Straub
  • Narrated by: Jason Culp
  • Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
  • 3.6 out of 5 stars (22 ratings)

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In the Night Room

By: Peter Straub
Narrated by: Jason Culp
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Publisher's summary

In his latest soul-chilling novel, best-selling author Peter Straub tells of a famous children's book author who, in the wake of a grotesque accident, realizes that the most basic facts of her existence, including her existence itself, have come into question.

Willy Patrick, the respected author of the award-winning young-adult novel In the Night Room, thinks she is losing her mind...again. One day, she is drawn helplessly into the parking lot of a warehouse. She knows somehow that her daughter, Holly, is being held in the building, and she has an overwhelming need to rescue her. But what Willy knows is impossible, for her daughter is dead.

On the same day, author Timothy Underhill, who has been struggling with a new book about a troubled young woman, is confronted with the ghost of his 9-year-old sister, April. Soon after, he begins to receive eerie, fragmented e-mails that he finally realizes are from people he knew in his youth, people now dead. Like his sister, they want urgently to tell him something. When Willy and Timothy meet, the frightening parallels between Willy's tragic loss and the story in Tim's manuscript suggest that they must join forces to confront the evils surrounding them.

©2004 Peter Straub (P)2004 Random House, Inc. Random House Audio, a division of Random House, Inc.
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Critic reviews

"Moving briskly while ranging from high humor to the blackest dread, this is an original, astonishingly smart and expertly entertaining meditation on imagination and its powers; one of the very finest works of Straub's long career." (Publishers Weekly)

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This is a unique book that is pure fantasy but also quite touching. I certainly wouldn’t call it a horror story but it drew me in and the Culp narration was excellent. I loved it.

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