House of Windows
When a young writer finds himself cornered by a beautiful widow in the waning hours of a late-night cocktail party, he seeks at first to escape, to return to his wife and infant son. But the tale she weaves, of her missing husband, a renowned English professor, and her lost stepson, a soldier killed on a battlefield on the other side of the world, and of phantasmal visions, a family curse, and a house . . . the Belvedere House, a striking mansion whose features suggest a face hidden just out of view, draws him in, capturing him.
What follows is a deeply psychological ghost story of memory and malediction, loss and remorse. This unnerving tour de force, exploring the literary haunted house, from Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, and H. P. Lovecraft to today, incorporates family trauma, abstract art, literary criticism, the occult Dickens, and the war in Afghanistan. From John Langan (Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters) comes House of Windows, a chilling novel in the tradition of Peter Straub, Joe Hill, and Laird Barron.
Cover Art by Santiago Caruso
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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.
First printing, October 2009
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ISBN-13: 978-1-59780-152-2 ISBN-10: 1-59780-152-6
House of Windows © 2009 by John Langan This edition of House of Windows © 2009 by Night Shade Books
Jacket art © 2009 by Santiago Caruso Jacket design by Michael Gin Interior layout and design by Ross E. Lockhart
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