"Suspenseful." -- The New York Times "An electrifying finish: During the last forty pages my hands were as good as nailed to the book." --Stephen King   "Straub is terrifyingly accomplished in the art of horror." -- Entertainment Weekly   "Peter Straub is a national treasure." --Lawrence Block   "You expect the horrifying in the fiction of Peter Straub . and you get it." -- The New York Times  "More than a good storyteller with a talent for scaring readers. He's a writer who transcends his genre.

" -- USA Today "[Straub] is a master at blurring the supernatural, the real-world-scary, and the monsters in your psyche." -- The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)  "Not since Edgar Allan Poe has an author taken such liberties with his readers' nerves." -- Cosmopolitan "Straub's literary specialty . is not dreams but nightmares. He's particularly adept at the kind of creepy psychological yarn pioneered by Henry James and modernized by Shirley Jackson." -- Salon "Straub is the master of subtle, smoldering dread." -- People  "Peter Straub is one of his generation's best storytellers. [Stephen] King goes for your jugular; Straub goes for your brain.

" --Tor.com.