Description
Cornered at a late-night cocktail party, a young writer finds himself drawn into a chilling account told by a beautiful widow—one that begins with a missing husband, a renowned English professor, and a lost stepson whose death echoes from a distant battlefield. As the story unfolds over a single long evening, the haunting of an old house reveals itself less as a simple supernatural spectacle than as a psychological and literary puzzle, threaded through flashbacks of love, divorce, and a family curse shaped by pride and wrath. With its layered narration and deliberate obfuscation of truth, the novel asks what we choose to believe—and what stories, guilt, and language can do to the living. John Langan’s sharp, fireside-storytelling style brings a Lovecraftian sense of dread to the foreground while keeping the deepest terror rooted in character and consequence.
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Night Shade
Published Apr 1, 2009
256 pages
ISBN: 9781597801522
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First Published
2009
Language
eng
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