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A new collection of award-winning short stories from the acclaimed master of horror – author of the bestselling MR X, KOKO, THE TALISMAN and BLACK HOUSE.



Trade Review

‘Elegant, terrifying, provocative… the best collection of suspense and horror fiction in many years. Magic Terror is bliss for readers whose love of the eerie doesn’t preclude a taste for literary elegance.’
Washington Post

‘Clever exercises in horror.’
New York Times

‘Mixing stark realism with black comedy, and reverberating with echoes of Conrad, Melville and the Brothers Grimm, these excursions to the dark side of life set a high standard for the literature of contemporary magic terror.’
Publishers Weekly

‘Peter Straub is the great classicist of horror fiction… a world-class author.’
CLIVE BARKER

MAGIC TERROR

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    A Paperback by Peter Straub

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      Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
      Publication Date: 3/4/2002 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780007109913, 978-0007109913
      ISBN10: 0007109911
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      Horror & Ghost Stories

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A new collection of award-winning short stories from the acclaimed master of horror – author of the bestselling MR X, KOKO, THE TALISMAN and BLACK HOUSE.



      Trade Review

      ‘Elegant, terrifying, provocative… the best collection of suspense and horror fiction in many years. Magic Terror is bliss for readers whose love of the eerie doesn’t preclude a taste for literary elegance.’
      Washington Post

      ‘Clever exercises in horror.’
      New York Times

      ‘Mixing stark realism with black comedy, and reverberating with echoes of Conrad, Melville and the Brothers Grimm, these excursions to the dark side of life set a high standard for the literature of contemporary magic terror.’
      Publishers Weekly

      ‘Peter Straub is the great classicist of horror fiction… a world-class author.’
      CLIVE BARKER

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