Audrey's Door - Softcover

Langan, Sarah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061624217 ISBN 13: 9780061624216

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2009

Synopsis

"Sarah Langan is an audaciously terrifying storyteller, and Audrey's Door practically hums with frantic energy and hair-raising tension."
--New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen

Rosemary's Baby meets The Shining behind Audrey's Door--a masterwork of psychological suspense and supernatural terror from the acclaimed author of The Keeper and The Missing. Ramsey Campbell, Matthew Pearl, and David Morrell are among the ever-growing legion of fans of this Bram Stoker Award-winning writer who Peter Straub says, "combines a genuinely poetic sensibility with a taste for horror's most bravura excesses." Reviewers across the country have already compared Sarah Langan to H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, and Stephen King and her brilliantly, chillingly original Audrey's Door solidifies her standing as one of America's most exciting new masters of contemporary dark fantasy.

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Review:

"[THE KEEPER] will scare the heck out of you." -- 4 stars! --Lindsay Hunter, OK! MAGAZINE

...Combines a witches brew of toxic styles, mixing in bits of Stephen King, Lovecraft, Poe, and Peter Straub, then pours out a thoroughly nasty concoction all her own.--Madison County Herald

"A dark and bracingly bleak tale of supernatural terror. Its brooding atmosphere comes as much from the social and psychological as from the ghostly, and best of all, from the quality of the prose."--Ramsey Campbell, author of SECRET STORY

"A beautiful, suspenseful novel... that sets out to do exactly what it should: scare the reader with a combination of well-crafted prose and page-turning velocity."--Baltimore Sun

"A genuine creepfest that recalls, in the best way possible, the early work of Stephen King....Langan has the control of a pro....this solid sophomore effort proves that the uncanny ability of The Keeper to burrow into readers' heads and stay there was no fluke."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Akin to the more ambitious work of Stephen King...this effective debut promises great things to come."--Publishers Weekly

"[A] distinct and juicy flavor all its own. THE KEEPER begins what should be a very fruitful career."--Peter Straub, New York Times bestselling author of IN THE NIGHT ROOM

"Assured...Langan's characters come brilliantly to life...this is horror on a big scale, akin to the more ambitious work of Stephen King...this effective debut promises great things to come."--Publishers Weekly

."..[I]nnovative, sharp, and absolutely chilling..."--Brian Keene, Bram Stoker Award winning author of Ghoul and Dead Sea

"[THE MISSING is] as engrossing as a dagger poised at one's throat."--J.C. Patterson

From the Back Cover:

Built on the Upper West Side, the elegant Breviary claims a regal history. But despite 14B's astonishingly low rental price, the recent tragedy within its walls has frightened away all potential tenants . . . except for Audrey Lucas.

No stranger to tragedy at thirty-two--a survivor of a fatherless childhood and a mother's hopeless dementia-- Audrey is obsessively determined to make her own way in a city that often strangles the weak. But is it something otherworldly or Audrey's own increasing instability that's to blame for the dark visions that haunt her . . . and for the voice that demands that she build a door? A door it would be true madness to open . . .

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0061624217
• ISBN 13: 9780061624216
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 412