House of Windows
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (959 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B071CQ8RLP |
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| Number of Pages | : | 156 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Though Veronica's story spans two nights, the level of detail stretches the confessional conceit well beyond the bounds of believability. (Oct.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Lovely widow Veronica Croydon corners the unnamed narrator at a party and offers to relate the weird story of her husband, Roger, and his disappearance. She spins an odd tale of adultery, family struggles and a house possibly haunted by the spirit of Roger's son, Ted, a Special Forces officer who died in Afghanistan after Roger disowned and cursed him. All rights reserved. From Publishers Weekly A two-time International Horror Guild Award finalist for short fiction, Langan pens a surprisingly plodding first novel. Literary allusions offer a spark of interest, but even fans of Lovecraft and Peter Straub, whom Langan tries hard to emulate, will find it difficult to navigate the unnecessary tangents and repetitio
What the Dickens! Jonathan May Young second wife Veronica Croydon has lost her Dickens-specialist much older husband Roger. Academic friends speculate as to his disappearance. Finally, at a house party in Cape Cod Veronica tells the framework narrator, a writer of horror fiction, the story of what she believes happened. John Langan’s novel House of Windows is suffused with Dickens. But as our writer listens to Veronica&rsquo. Weez said What a book.. John Langan is a tremendous writer. "House of Windows" was different than "The Fisherman", but just as good. Other than the excellent writing, I especially appreciate the way Langan doesn't go over the top. He makes everything plausible, and his characters actions and reactions are 100% the way real people might react. I hope that Langan writes more novels, not just short stories.. One of the top horror novels of 2009 Paul Tremblay The novel centers around Veronica (young, beautiful grad student) and Roger (65 yr old divorcee, well-established and respected Dickens scholar/professor, who's son Ted had joined the Army and is killed in Afghanistan) and their complex relationship/marriage, the relationships they have/had with their parents, and ultimately the relationships they have with themselves as well. Langan isn't interested
Both House of Windows and The Fisherman are dark and unsettling contemporary masterpieces.” —Peter Straub, New York Times bestselling authorFor the last few years, Veronica Croydon has been at the center of scandal, first as the younger woman for whom her famous professor left his wife, and then as his apparent widow. When a writer staying at the same vacation home as Veronica has the chance to hear her story, he jumps at it. It is a story that leads inexorably to the Belvedere House, the home Veronica shares with her husband, within whose walls a father's terrible words to his son echo and gain in awful force.House of Windows is a tense, frightening exploration of a marriage under strain from forces both psychological and supernatural, and it is a meditation on the ways loss haunts every one of us.“House of Windows is a haunted house story of the highest order.” —Strange HorizonsReading Group Guide Inside. Reissued with a new int
Langan has been nominated for the International Horror Guild Award and the Bram Stoker Award. With Paul Tremblay, he co-edited Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters. He is one of the founders of the Shirley Jackson Awards, for which he served as a juror during their first three years. He lives in New York's Hudson Valley with his wife, younger son, and a house full of